Meanings (ES + gloss)
ad hoc
The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!
nonce
A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce…
The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transa…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
violeta
A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
1989 "assorted nonces, ponces and murderers, 'the worst men in the world' … on the nonce wing, where the child-killers, molesters and various perverts have to be protected from the…
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