camouflagenoun/ˈkæ.məˌflɑːʒ/

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  A disguise or covering up.

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  The act of disguising.

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  governmentmilitarypoliticsThe use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.

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  businessmanufacturingtextilesA pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.

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  biologynatural-sciencesThe resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection.

  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
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  Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.

camouflageverb/ˈkæ.məˌflɑːʒ/

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  To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing its appearance.

  • THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. A gaudy jacket, remarkably out of keeping with the contents, camouflages the weightiest and meatiest work on a railway topic since the war.
  • Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.