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Encyclopedia > Concealment
Look up hiding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in almost every language. ... Exposure can be: A condition of poor health or death resulting from prolonged exposure to weather radiation poisoning Exposure of the skin to sunshine, etc. ... Anolis caroliensis showing blending camouflage and counter-shading. ... Deception (or mystification) is to intentionally distort the truth in order to mislead others. ... Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from others. ...


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: An invisible girl sitting in a deck chair. ...

Men and women wearing suits, an example of one of the many modern forms of clothing (from the 1937 Chicago Woolen Mills catalog) Clothing is defined, in its broadest sense, as coverings for the torso and limbs as well as coverings for the hands (gloves), feet (socks, shoes, sandals, boots... Modesty describes a set of culturally or religiously determined values that relate to the presentation of the self to others. ... A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. ... The front door of a house is often decorated to appear inviting. ... A window covering is material used to cover a window to reduce sunlight, to provide additional weatherproofing, or to ensure privacy. ...

Computer science and programming

Information hiding is the hiding of design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change. // Overview In computer science, the principle of information hiding is the hiding of design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change, thus protecting other parts of the program from change if the design decision is changed. ...


Hidden surface determination is the process used to determine which surfaces and parts of surfaces are not visible from a certain viewpoint. In 3D computer graphics, hidden surface determination is the process used to determine which surfaces and parts of surfaces are not visible from a certain viewpoint. ...


Fiction

Hiding Out is a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer as Wall Street broker hiding out with cousin Keith Coogan as the mob tries to kill him. ... A Figure In Hiding is Volume 16 in the original Hardy Boys book series published by Grosset And Dunlap. ... The Hardy Boys is a popular series of detective/adventure books for boys chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. ...

See also

A skirmish with smugglers from Finland at the Russian border, 1853, by Vasily Hudiakov. ... A stowaway (also stoweaway) is a person who travels illegally, by airplane, bus, ship or train. ... Concealing the birth of an infant is when a parent hides the birth of their child. ... Hide and seek (sometimes also called hide and go seek) is a popular tag variant that is best played in areas with lots of potential hiding spots, such as a forest or a large house. ... An invisible girl sitting in a deck chair. ...

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Legal Definition of Concealment (258 words)
CONCEALMENT - The unlawful suppression of any fact or circumstance by one of the partys to a contract from the other, which in justice ought to be made known.
For example, the concealment by an agent that a nuisance existed in connexion with a house the owner had to hire, did not render the lease void.
Under this rule, it has been decided that a policy is void, which was obtained by the concealment by the assured of the fact that he had heard that a vessel like his was taken.
Criminal Resource Manual 858 Fraudulent Transfer or Concealment -- 18 U.S.C. § 152(7) (749 words)
Concealment is not a necessary element of a prohibited transfer.
The special mens rea required is that the concealment or the transfer be done either (1) in contemplation of the filing of a bankruptcy case, or (2) with the intent to defeat the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code.
The first alternative mens rea-- that the concealment or the transfer was done in contemplation of the filing of a bankruptcy case -- requires proof of a connection between the defendant's actions and the filing of the bankruptcy case.
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