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(stĕlth)

1. The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
2. The quality or characteristic of being furtive or covert.
3. Archaic. The act of stealing.

1. Not disclosing one's true ideology, affiliations, or positions: a stealth candidate.
2. Having or providing the ability to prevent detection by radar: a stealth bomber; stealth technology.

[Middle English stelth, probably from Old English *stǣlth.]

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noun

The act of proceeding slowly, deliberately, and secretly to escape observation: furtiveness, slinkiness, sneakiness, stealthiness. See move/halt.

"Key technologies that have been identified are the following," said the magazine Aviation Week in 1979, "Stealth technology. Engines and fuels. Avionics."

After the invention of radar (1941), successfully used for nearly half a century, the next advance in weaponry was the invention of an airplane that would resist radar detection. The first airplane designed to do so, the B2 Stealth bomber, was a U.S. Air Force project so stealthy that even the name (with a capital letter) did not become visible until the late 1970s. The successful Stealth combination of materials and angles which absorb and deflect radar signals was developed for that airplane during the 1980s. During that decade, the Navy began to consider its own Stealth technology for submarines under water.

But the story of stealth does not stop there. It appears, or rather disappears, on Mars, where "much of the large black feature near the equator...has been informally dubbed 'Stealth,' since it shows no radar return whatever," according to Science News in 1989.

And on Earth, stealth has slipped into political jargon. A stealth candidate is one who avoids the traditional public forums, or who avoids taking a stand on the issues, or whose support does not show in the polls, thus remaining undetected as a serious threat. A 1992 article explained that stealth campaign is "a term coined from an interview made after the 1990 elections by the Virginia-based Christian coalition's Ralph Reed.... 'It's like guerrilla warfare,' Reed was quoted as saying.... 'If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night.'"

Approaching invisibility usually through the application of technology.

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• Secrecy and Concealment - stealth: furtive or secret movements or procedures

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Stealth may refer to:

• Stealth technology, technology used to conceal ships, aircraft, and missiles

• Stealth aircraft, aircraft which use stealth technology
• Stealth ground vehicle, ground vehicles which use stealth technology
• Stealth patrol unit, used by police forces in the United States and Canada
• Stealth ship, ships which use stealth technology

• Stealth mode, secretive business behavior
• Stealth virus, elusive technologies for viruses
• Stealth (transgender), remaining private about sex assigned at birth
• Stealth (film), a 2005 action/adventure thriller starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx
• Stealth (roller coaster), at Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom
• Stealth (webcomic), a webcomic created, written and drawn by William Satterwhite
• Stealth game, a genre of video games
• Mitsubishi GTO also known as the Dodge Stealth, a sports car
• Washington Stealth, an NLL lacrosse team
• Nighthawk, an America roller coaster formerly known as STEALTH
• Stealth tax, a new tax that is collected in a way that is not obvious
• B.C. Rich Stealth, a guitar model made by guitar company B.C. Rich

See also:

• Leo Stoller, who claims "Stealth" as a trademark

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - hemmelig, skjult

Nederlands (Dutch)
geheime actie, radarontwijkend vliegtuigontwerp

Français (French)
n. - discrétion

Deutsch (German)
n. - Heimlichkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - το λαθραίο κινήσεων ή μεθόδων, μυστικότητα, δολιότητα, υπουλότητα

Italiano (Italian)
segretezza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - ação (f) furtiva

Русский (Russian)
хитрость уловка

Español (Spanish)
n. - cautela, sigilo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hemlighet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
秘密行动, 偷窃, 鬼鬼祟祟

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 秘密行動, 偷竊, 鬼鬼祟祟

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 몰래 하기, 비밀, 내밀

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - こっそりすること, 忍び, 隠密

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خفيه, خلسه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סתר, התגנבות, הליך סודי‬

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