cloaking device
nounEtymology 1968. Coined by D. C. Fontana in the script for the Star Trek episode The Enterprise Incident.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A device which renders a person or thing invisible.
- I believe the Romulans have developed a cloaking device which renders our tracking sensors useless.1968, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, The Enterprise Incident (Star Trek), season 3, episode 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
- They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device.1980, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back, spoken by Captain Needa (Michael Culver):
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- I put out my hand and touched the warm surface of the camouflaged Rolls-Royce. I was going to ask Mycroft if I could have the cloaking device fitted to my Speedster but I was too late; enthused by my interest he had trotted off to a large roll-top bureau and was beckoning me over excitedly.2001, Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair:
- Derived terms
- decloak