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stego

stego adjective: steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.

Adjective

stego (not comparable)

  1. Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.
    • A stego text might become meaningless if words of the cover text are freely replaced to synonyms without considering the context.2013, Kazuhiro Kondo, Multimedia Information Hiding Technologies and Methodologies for Controlling Data, Hershey, P.A.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 357, column 1

Noun (1)

stego (countable and uncountable, plural stegos)

  1. (uncountable) Steganography.
  2. (countable) A secret message hidden using steganography.
    • One might use traditional steganalysis to find stegos and then identify the guilty actors.2020, Hanzhou Wu, “Unsupervised steganographer identification via clustering and outlier detection”, in Mahmoud Hassaballah, editor, Digital Media Steganography, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page...

Noun (2)

stego (plural stegos)

  1. A stegosaurus.
    • First felt both happy and sad at the sight of the old stegosaurus. She thought of the time Mother had first brought her this way. She had growled at the giant stego, albeit from a safe distance.2017, Seth Chambers, Her Rule Would Always Last, →ISBN, page 44

Forms of stego

pluralstegos

Origin of stego

Clipping of various terms relating to steganography.

Clipping of stegosaurus.

Questions about stego

What does stego mean?
Stego means steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.
What part of speech is stego?
Stego can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near stego in the dictionary

  1. Stegna
  2. Stegner
  3. Stegners
  4. stegnosis
  5. stegnotic
  6. stego
  7. stegocarpous
  8. stegocephalian
  9. stegocephalians
  10. stegocephalic
  11. stegocephalid

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