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English
Etymology
From trap + door.
Pronunciation
Noun
trapdoor (plural trapdoors)
- A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
- (theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
- (computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
- (mathematics, cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
- (mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.[1]
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Translations
door set into floor or ceiling
- Bulgarian: люк (bg) m (ljuk), капак на пода (kapak na poda)
- Catalan: trapa (ca) f, escotilla f
- Danish: lem (da) c, luge c
- Dutch: valluik (nl) n, valdeur (nl) f
- Esperanto: klapopordo, klappordo, plankpordo, plankopordo
- Finnish: luukku (fi)
- French: trappe (fr)
- Galician: zapón m, zapa, trapa f, trapela (gl) f
- German: Falltür (de) f
- Greek: καταπακτή (el) f (katapaktí)
- Hungarian: csapóajtó (hu)
- Icelandic: hleri (is) m, fallhleri m, hlemmur (is) m
- Italian: botola (it)
- Maori: kopani
- Norman: trappe f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lem (no) m
- Polish: klapa (pl) f
- Portuguese: alçapão (pt)
- Russian: люк (ru) m (ljuk), лаз (ru) m (laz)
- Spanish: trampa (es), escotillón (es) m
- Swedish: fallucka (sv) c, lucka (sv) c
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secret access to a program
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Verb
trapdoor (third-person singular simple present trapdoors, present participle trapdooring, simple past and past participle trapdoored)
- (cryptography, transitive) To subvert (a cryptographic scheme) by means of a secret parameter that makes the trapdoor function easy to compute.
- (surgery, intransitive) To form a trapdoor deformity.
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