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stealth

[stelth] ,
–noun
1. secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
2. a furtive departure or entrance.
3. Obsolete.
a. an act of stealing; theft.
b. the thing stolen; booty.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. a U.S. Air Force project involving a range of technologies, with the purpose of developing aircraft that are difficult to detect by sight, sound, radar, and infrared energy.
–adjective
5. surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor's CEO; the stealth issue of the presidential race.

Origin:
1200–50; ME stelthe; cf. OE stælthing theft. See steal, -th 1


stealthful, adjective
stealth⋅ful⋅ly, adverb
stealthless, adjective
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