Concealment

[OF. concelement.]

1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.

Some dear cause
Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.

2. A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation.

The cleft tree
Offers its kind concealment to a few.

3. A secret; out of the way knowledge. [Obs.]

Well read in strange concealments.

4. (Law) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton.

Intention to withhold or secrete information. If an insured withholds information on a material fact, about which the insurance company has no knowledge, the company has grounds to void the contract. For example, the insured neglects to tell the company that, within a week of the policy issue date, the manufacture of gunpowder in the insured business's building will commence. If an explosion related to the gunpowder then occurs in the building the company has legal grounds for not paying for the property damage.

noun

The habit, practice, or policy of keeping secrets: clandestineness, clandestinity, covertness, huggermugger, huggermuggery, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness. See show/hide.

Definition: hiding, secrecy
Antonyms: disclosure, divulgence, exposition, exposure, revelation, showing, telling, uncovering

An act making more difficult the discovery of that which one is legally obligated to reveal or not withhold, such as the failure of a bankrupt to schedule all his or her assets, or the failure of an applicant for an insurance policy to disclose information relevant to the insurer's decision to insure the risk. "A concealment in the law of insurance implies an intention to withhold or secrete information so that the one entitled to be informed will remain in ignorance." 236 N.E. 2d 63, 70. Hiding; placing out of sight. A weapon placed out of normal view is a concealed weapon.

active concealment concealing by words or deeds that which one has a duty to reveal.

passive concealment maintaining silence when a duty to speak exists.

(DOD, NATO) The protection from observation or surveillance. See also camouflage; cover; screen.

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Concealment (also called abscondence or hiding) is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous, the opposite of exposure. A military term is CCD: camouflage, concealment and deception (looks the same as the surroundings, cannot be seen, looks like something else, respectively); in a wider sense the other two are also forms of hiding.

Contents 1 In nature 2 Military tactics 3 Computer science and programming 4 Information and data 5 Fiction 6 Slang 7 See also

The objective of hiding is often to keep the presence of an object or person secret, but in other cases not the presence is a secret, but only the location.

More generally an object may be hidden from view, either purposely, or as a side effect; in this case the presence of the object is not necessarily a secret. Examples:

• Clothing hiding the skin or body shape from view; see also modesty
• Wall
• Door of a cupboard
• Window covering

In nature

Many organisms have evolved various forms of concealment. See the articles to hide, camouflage and mimicry.

Military tactics

• In the genre of military tactics, the term refers to any object, vegetation, terrain feature, or phenomenon (i.e., night, smoke, fog) that prevents a combatant (or unit of combatants) from being seen by the enemy. In differentiation from the similar concept of cover, concealment cannot protect against actual projectiles.

A U.S. Soldier from the Nemesis troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment conceals himself through a smoke screen after one of his Regiments vehicles gets hit with an improvised explosive device, October 18, 2007, Baghdad, Iraq.

Computer science and programming

• Information hiding is the hiding of design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change.

• Hidden surface determination is the process used to determine which surfaces and parts of surfaces are not visible from a certain viewpoint.

Information and data

• Cryptography is the study of message secrecy.
• Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message; this is in contrast to cryptography, where the existence of the message itself is not disguised, but the content is obscured.

Fiction

• Hiding Out, a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer.
• A Figure in Hiding, Volume 16 in the original Hardy Boys book series.

Slang

• In New Zealand slang a "hiding" may refer to a sound beating. Come here Rangi, I am gonna give you such a hiding

See also

• Concealment device
• Concealing birth
• Cover-up (concealing evidence)
• Hide and seek
• Invisibility
• Landmine
• Smuggling
• Stowaway

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