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- noun science fiction A device which renders a person or thing
invisible .
Etymologies
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The term was coined by D. C. Fontana in the 1968 Star Trek script Enterprise Incident.
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thesaraheffect commented on the word cloaking device
An advanced stealth technology that causes an object to be invisible to parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
September 24, 2009