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Cloaking Device

Term for an Invisibility screen used by Spaceships, popularized by Star Trek. It first appears as a Romulan Invention in the original-series episode "Balance of Terror" (1966), and continues to be used by Romulans and later Klingons (though not, for treaty reasons, the USS Enterprise itself) in later Star Trek incarnations. [DRL]

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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