Meanings
stego1
- not comparablecomputingSteganographic; 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
plural stegos
- uncountablecomputingSteganography.
- countablecomputingA 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 296
stego2
plural stegos
- fantasyA 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
Origin
stego · adjective, noun
Clipping of various terms relating to steganography.
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stego. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stego
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