Polybius square

Definitions

• (telecommunications) A character code represented by two sets of six lit torches, used to send messages character by character, in a two point visual fire telegraph. The character code is generated by encoding characters in a grid, where each character generates two numbers, uniquely representing each character as a pair of numbers.
• (cryptography) A grid used for fractionating plaintext characters so that they can be represented by a smaller set of symbols.