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stealth

Pronunciation: (stelth), [key]
—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.
surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor's CEO; the stealth issue of the Presidential race.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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