Meanings
plural cloaking devices
- literatureA device which renders a person or thing invisible.
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)2 more examples
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)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
Origin
1968. Coined by D. C. Fontana in the script for the Star Trek episode The Enterprise Incident.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish dispositivo invisibilizador, dispositivo invisibilizante
- dispositivo invisibilizadorTranslations
- dispositivo invisibilizanteTranslations
- dispositivo camuflador activoTranslations
- dispositivo camuflante activoTranslations
- dispositivo camuflajeador activoTranslations
- dispositivo camuflajeante activoTranslations
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