单词 | stealth |
释义 | stealth —stealthful, adj. —stealthfully, adv. —stealthless, adj. /stelth/, 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. 5. surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor's CEO; the stealth issue of the Presidential race. [1200-50; ME stelthe; cf. OE staelthing theft. See STEAL, -TH1] |
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