scrambling
scrambling Lexical Profile
scrambling Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An outdoor activity that involves clambering up steep, rocky terrain or ridges using both hands and feet, bridging the gap between hillwalking and technical rock climbing.
"The mountain guide recommended that beginners practice scrambling on low ridges before attempting technical climbs."
In telecommunications and computing, the process of encoding, transposing, or inverting signals and data streams to prevent unauthorized access or to optimize signal transmission.
"Data scrambling ensures that sensitive satellite broadcasts cannot be intercepted without a matching decoder."
British The sport of racing lightweight motorcycles over rough, hilly, and unpaved cross-country courses.
"Before the international adoption of the French term, motorcycle scrambling was a popular weekend spectator sport across the British countryside."
In linguistics, the movement or rearrangement of words and phrases within a sentence that changes word order without altering the core grammatical meaning.
"Languages with rich case systems, such as German, Russian, and Japanese, allow extensive syntactic scrambling for emphasis."