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cloaking device

noun

  1. fictional technology that renders objects invisible
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Wiktionary

noun

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

  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.

    They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device.