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1892 New Rev. 6 372 Judging by a first reading, I will only say that it is cryptic even beyond the crypticity of its author.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 3 July 19 The honest villagers, angered by the crypticity of my clues in the local treasure hunt are coming up the path brandishing torches and singing opera menacingly.

1955 Discuss. Faraday Soc. 20 76 I would propose that terms such as ‘activation coefficient’, ‘crypticity’, etc., be replaced by the term ‘factor’, introduced by Bonner and defined as the ratio of activities of maximally active enzyme to that of the enzyme in its original..state.

1962 Science 23 Mar. 1068/3 Membrane damage was..shown by a decrease in crypticity to o-nitrophenyl-β- d-galactopyranoside.

2005 A. K. Mercheff et al. in M. Zierhut et al. Immunol. Lacrimal Gland 46 Autoimmunity to proteins that normally are exposed at..the plasma membrane may require overcoming molecular crypticity.

1956 P. Marler Behaviour of Chaffinch Index 182 Moult, crypticity during.

1957 Behaviour 11 33 The females and young of many birds are adapted to be difficult for predators to find. The demands of crypticity obviously restrict wide specific diversity.

1986 F. McKinney in D. I. Rubinstein & R. W. Wrangham Ecol. Aspects Social Evol. viii. 154 The primary antipredator strategy of nesting females is crypticity.

1995 J. Atema & R. Voigt in J. R. Factor Biol. Lobster Homarus Americanus xiii. 323 Chemical crypticity would require storing waste products in the gut and the bladders, occasionally releasing them and leaving them behind as decoys.

2002 Nature 7 Feb. 609 We report the first controlled experiment on the effects of visual predators on prey crypticity and phenotypic variance.

1994 M. Gell-Mann Quark & Jaguar viii. 101 Two particularly interesting quantities, labeled ‘depth’ and ‘crypticity’ by Charlie [sc. Charles H. Bennett], are both related to computational complexity and have a reciprocal relation to each other. The study of each quantity throws light on the case of an apparently complex system that nevertheless has low algorithmic information content and low effective complexity.

2002 S. Maguire in M. R. Lissack Interaction Complexity & Managem. xxiii. 239 There are information..approaches from computer science and time and space measures that focus on the effort or time required to unravel the crypticity or hidden complexities and form a conception..about a system's complex character.

2007 R. Russo in E. Abruzzo et al. Models 113/1 There is another important aspect to the history of the Widmanstätten pattern that concerns its crypticity and geometry.