From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstealthstealth /stelθ/ noun [uncountable]1QUIETHIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEwhen you do something very quietly, slowly, or secretly, so that no one notices youCats rely on stealth to catch their prey.2 (also Stealth) a system of making militaryaircraft that cannot be discovered by radarinstrumentsstealth bomber/aircraft/fighter etc (=a plane made using this system)Examples from the Corpusstealth• The Air Force has made its radar-evading B-2 stealthbombers even harder to find in the air.• stealthtechnology• A white sloop moved upriver in the dark, a little mystery of grace and stealth.• This is another instance of the novelistpromoting his dearestvalues by stealth.• Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came.• Newer stealthplanes, including the B-2 bomber and the F-22, use the curvestructurepioneered by TacitBlue.• There is more to the YF-22 than stealth.• Liz ran, dragging Anna, their footstepsthundering; stealth would take too long.• They would use stealth, lull me into thinking there was no danger.stealth bomber/aircraft/fighter etc• The Air Force has made its radar-evading B-2 stealth bombers even harder to find in the air.• And Lockheed Martin now wants clearance to export the new F-22 stealth fighter.• The Air Force intends the F-22 stealth fighter to be the grimmestperdition to darken the skies since mythological times.• A new, all-but-invisible stealth fighter was no exception.Originstealth(1200-1300) From an unrecorded Old Englishstælth"stealing"