STEALTH


Meaning of STEALTH in English

— stealthful , adj. — stealthfully , adv. — stealthless , adj.

/stelth/ , n.

1. secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.

2. a furtive departure or entrance.

3. Obs.

a. an act of stealing; theft.

b. the thing stolen; booty.

4. ( cap. ) Mil. 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.

adj.

5. surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor's CEO; the stealth issue of the Presidential race.

[ 1200-50; ME stelthe; cf. OE staelthing theft. See STEAL, -TH 1 ]

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