Concealment
Concealment or
hiding is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous, the opposite of
exposure. A military term is CCD:
camouflage, concealment and
deception (looks the same as the surroundings, can not be seen, looks like something else, respectively); in a wider sense the other two are also forms of hiding. The objective of hiding is often to keep the presence of an object or person
secret, but in other cases not the presence is a secret, but only the location.
More generally an object may be
hidden from view, either purposely, or as a side effect; in this case the presence of the object is not necessarily a secret. Examples:
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clothing hiding the skin from view; see also
modesty*
wall*
door of a cupboard
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window coveringInformation hiding is the hiding of design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change.
Hidden surface determination is the process used to determine which surfaces and parts of surfaces are not visible from a certain viewpoint.
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Hiding Out, a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer.
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A Figure in Hiding, Volume 16 in the original
Hardy Boys book series.
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smuggling*
stowaway*
concealing birth*
hide and seek*
invisibility*
hiding (disambiguation)
