the present use, occasion, or time; time being: chiefly in for the nonce
Origin of nonce
Middle English (for the) nones, formed by syllabic merging from (for then) ones, literally , the once: then is the dative singular of the def. article (grammar)nonce
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nonce
noun
The present or particular occasion: “Her tendency to discover a touch of sadness had for the nonce disappeared” ( Theodore Dreiser )
Origin of nonce
From Middle English for the nones for the occasion alteration of for then anes for for ; see for . then neuter dative sing. of the ; see the 1. ones, anes once ; see once .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural nonces)
- The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
- That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
- (lexicography) A nonce word.
- I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
- (computing) A number, usually generated randomly or from the time, used once in a cryptographic protocol, to prevent replay attacks.
Adjective
(not comparable)
- denoting something occurring once.
Origin
From a misdivision in Middle English of þan anes (“the one (occasion, instance)").
Noun
(plural nonces)
- (UK, slang, pejorative) A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.
- That bloke who lives at number 53 is a nonce!
- (UK, slang) A stupid or worthless person.
Origin
Unknown - UK criminal slang. Possibly originally from dialectical nonce, nonse (“stupid, worthless individual"), or Nance, nance (“effeminate man"), from Nancy boy.
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Noun
(plural nonces)
- (cryptography) A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
- In this protocol we use the serial number of the message as a nonce.
- (cryptography) In a security engineering context, a value used only once.
Origin
Contraction of number used once
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nonce - Computer Definition
(Number ONCE) An arbitrary number that is generated to provide a unique identification or for security purposes such as when logging in to a network (see initialization vector). The nonce is used only once and not repeated. Although random and pseudo-random numbers theoretically produce unique numbers, there is the possibility that the same number can be generated more than once. However, if a very large, true random number is used, the chances are extremely small. A perfect nonce is the time of day; for example, 12.53 seconds past 5:13pm on 1/18/2012 can only occur once. Pronounced like the "nons" in "nonsense," nonce is actually an English word that means "for the present occasion or time."
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