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cloaking device

noun

Etymology

1968. Coined by D. C. Fontana in the script for the Star Trek episode The Enterprise Incident.

Definitions

  1. A device which renders a person or thing invisible.

    • I believe the Romulans have developed a cloaking device which renders our tracking sensors useless.
    • They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device.

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