adversary

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An adversary is generally considered to be a person, group, or force that opposes and/or attacks.

Adversary may also refer to:

  • Satan ("adversary" in Hebrew), in Abrahamic religions

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Entertainment

=Fiction=

  • Adversary (comics), villain from the Marvel comics universe
  • The mysterious antagonist who invaded the homelands in the comic book series Fables

=Music=

Law

Science

=Computer science=

  • Adversary (cryptography), a malicious entity in cryptography whose aim is to prevent the users of the cryptosystem from achieving their goal
  • Adversary model, in online algorithms, used to show competitiveness of randomized algorithms
  • Adversarial alignment, when an adversarial users constructs inputs that bypass AI alignment

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