stego

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adjective

Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.

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Meanings

stego1

adjectivestego (not comparable)
  1. 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
nounstego (countable and uncountable, plural stegos)

plural stegos

  1. uncountablecomputingSteganography.
  2. 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

nounstego (plural stegos)

plural stegos

  1. 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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APA

stego. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stego

MLA

“stego.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stego. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stego,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stego.

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