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Webster 1913 Edition


Trapdoor

Trap′doorˊ

,
Noun.
1.
(Arch.)
A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
2.
(Mining)
A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; – called also
weather door
.
Raymond.
Trapdoor spider
(Zool.)
,
any one of several species of large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a trapdoor. Most of the species belong to the genus
Cteniza
, as the California species (
Cteniza Californica
).

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trapdoor

trapdoor

See also: trap door

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trapdoor (plural trapdoors)

  1. A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
  2. (theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
  3. (computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
  4. (mathematics, cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
  5. (mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; weather door.
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