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What is a crypt?

What is a crypt? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now rare) A cave or cavern. [from 15th c.]
  2. An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. [from 16th c.]
  3. (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. [from 19th c.]
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A simple program calls the crypt routine, runs the hash on a word and then compares it to the password entry in the file.
Many students were memorised by the history associated with the ancient crypt of the cathedral.
An ancient diary tells them that the location of a hidden crypt that has been ciphered within the pages of the Renaissance text.
At the inauguration of the column, the bodies of the martyrs of the revolution were transferred to a crypt beneath the statue.
The route threads through and terminates in the crypt of the Lutheran church where the cultural centre was originally housed.
The spatial result resembles a cathedral crypt or an undercroft, yet it is all above ground.

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