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cloaking device

cloaking device noun: a device which renders a person or thing invisible.

Noun

cloaking device (plural cloaking devices)

  1. 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)

Forms of cloaking device

pluralcloaking devices

Origin of cloaking device

1968. Coined by D. C. Fontana in the script for the Star Trek episode The Enterprise Incident.

Words formed from cloaking device

Questions about cloaking device

What does cloaking device mean?
Cloaking device means a device which renders a person or thing invisible.
What part of speech is cloaking device?
Cloaking device is a noun.
What is the plural of cloaking device?
The plural of cloaking device is cloaking devices.

Words near cloaking device in the dictionary

  1. cloaked
  2. cloakedly
  3. cloakest
  4. cloaketh
  5. cloaking
  6. cloaking device
  7. cloaking devices
  8. cloakings
  9. cloakless
  10. cloaklessness
  11. cloaklet

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