Stealth (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
  2. a furtive departure or entrance.
  3. Obsolete.
    • an act of stealing; theft.
    • the thing stolen; booty.
  4. 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.
adjective
  1. not openly acknowledged; surreptitious; secret: They used underhand methods such as the stealth hiring of a competitor's CEO.Spending cuts are the stealth issue of this presidential race.
  2. (of a transgender person) living as a cisgender member of one's identified gender, without revealing that one is transgender: For some transgender people, being stealth may be the safest option.
noun
  1. the act or characteristic of moving with extreme care and quietness, esp so as to avoid detection
  2. cunning or underhand procedure or dealing
  3. the act of stealing
noun
  1. denoting or referring to technology that aims to reduce the radar, thermal, and acoustic recognizability of aircraft and missiles
Stealth (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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