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cloaking

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(1) Masking text in a Web page in order to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results. For example, white text on a white background is invisible to the user, but not to the search engine spiders that crawl the Web looking for pages to index. See Web spam.

(2) Disabling the SSID broadcasting in a Wi-Fi access point, which is the continuous announcement of its presence so that portable devices can log in. See SSID broadcast.



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They often looked across the country to where the Var or Froom was know to stretch, even though they might not be able to see it; and, fixing their eyes on the cloaking gray mist, imagined the old times they had spent out there.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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