# Banburismus

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A cryptologic process using an early form of Bayesian networks to infer information about the settings of the Enigma machine.

## Etymology
From Banbury, a type of codebreaking sheet named for being printed in the town of that name, + German -ismus (“-ism”); coined by Alan Turing, who invented the process in 1940.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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