stealth

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Pronunciation

• enPR: stĕlth, IPA: /stɛlθ/, X-SAMPA: /stElT/
• Rhymes: -ɛlθ

Noun

stealth (countable and uncountable; plural stealths)

1. (uncountable) the attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
2. (archaic, countable) an act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery
   • 1877, George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:

     [The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).

Related terms

• steal

Derived terms

• stealth bomber
• stealth fighter
• stealthy

Translations

attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy

• Catalan: furtivitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 隱身 (yánsān), 隱形 (yányìng)

  Mandarin: 隱身 (cmn) (yǐnjuān), 隱形 (cmn) (yǐnxíng)

• Finnish: salamyhkäisyys (fi), salakähmäisyys (fi), häive- (fi), häivetekniikka (fi)
• French: furtivité (fr) f, discrétion (fr) f
• German: Heimlichkeit (de) f

• Japanese: ステルス (ja) (suterusu), 隱形 (いんけい, inkei), 隱身 (いんしん, inshin), 隠密 (おんみつ, onmitsu), 掩蔽 (ja) (えんぺい, enpei)
• Macedonian: прикрадување (mk) (prikradúvanje) n, потајност (mk) (pótajnost) f
• Persian: پنهان‌کار (fa) (penhân-kâr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потаја (sh) f, притајеност (sh) f

  Roman: potaja (sh) f, pritajenost (sh) f

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• Dutch: steels (nl), stiekem (nl)

• Kurdish: dizîkî (ku), nehînî (ku)
• Spanish: cautela (es), sigilo (es)