Definition of "cloaking device" []

• A device which renders a person or thing invisible. (noun)

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• "Apparently, something called Section 31 reverseengineered the Romulan cloaking device on the Defiant."
• "The Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci used P-38s to open hatches on a Pakled ship that had suffered systems failure after installing a faulty cloaking device sold to them by the Ferengi."
• "Among its most notable elements, the Defiant featured a highly compact spaceframe with the nacelles in cowlings directly attached to the main hull, pulse phaser cannons, photon/quantum torpedo tubes, ablative armor plating, and a cloaking device provided by the Romulan government under a special amendment to the Treaty of Algeron."