covert

1. Law See feme covert Compare discovert

2. a thicket or woodland providing shelter for game

3. short for covert cloth

4. Ornithol any of the small feathers on the wings and tail of a bird that surround the bases of the larger feathers

5. a flock of coots

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covert

[′kō·vərt]

(ecology)

A refuge or shelter, such as a coppice, for game animals.

(textiles)

A tightly woven woolen twill fabric made by using a single-color yarn for filling threads and yarns in two different shades in the warp.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Covert

a closely woven worsted or semiworsted fabric, usually made in a serge twill or uncomplicated diagonal weave. A monotone woof shot and a warp, twisted from two threads of different colors, are used. Each thread of the warp may consist of either two worsted threads or one worsted and one cotton thread. The surface of covert cloth has a finely variegated design. Covert comes in various colors, usually in gray-green, beige-brown, and steel-blue tones. It is used for coats and suits. There is also cotton covert (an imitation of worsted covert), which is used primarily for raincoats.

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The main motivation of this study can be described as follows: In the design of existing covert timing channels, undetectability is usually studied based on the security model established from one-order statistics of IPDs (e.g., cumulative distribution function or probability distribution function), whereas high-order statistics of IPDs are always discarded completely.

Designing Rich-Secure Network Covert Timing Channels Based on Nested Lattices

Carson's Secret Wars use of the theater analogy is an important contribution to understanding covert actions or interventions.

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The rifle worked flawlessly, and the Covert Ti didn't give a peep of trouble.

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E[beta]er and Freiling [14] suggest covert timing channel using HTTP, in which a web server sends covert data to a client by delaying a response (binary 1) or responding immediately (binary 0).

Steganography of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)

The author is of the opinion that the main confusion related to choice and classification of security features is because features should be ideally classified as either visible or invisible, as this was the initial intention both of the TPD and independent reports used as the basis for the implementing decision, rather than the introduction of three categories whose 'borders' are not clear-cut (particularly in the case of the covert category).

Tobacco Products Directive: Hologram Recognised as an Overt Security Feature

where [t.sub.s] is the start time when the physical plant is covered by the covert agent.

A Novel Covert Agent for Stealthy Attacks on Industrial Control Systems Using Least Squares Support Vector Regression

In the concluding remarks of his summary, Donaldson presented a slideshow with details of the similar activities between covert phones, Yellow 294, Blue 233, Red 741, Yellow 669 and Ayyash's personal phone.

Donaldson seeks to tie phones to Ayyash at STL

Covert is notable for his role in the 2006 comedy flick 'Grandma's Boy' and worked with Sandler in a couple of films including 'Happy Gilmore,' 'Big Daddy' and '50 First Dates.'

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According to the company, it has launched a search for a new CFO and Covert has agreed to provide any needed assistance to ensure a smooth transition.

Harmonic's CFO to resign; Search for successor launched

Covert Love did trainer Hugo Palmer proud in the last campaign, winning the Irish Oaks and the Prix de l'Opera as well as finishing a close second to Pleascach in the Yorkshire Oaks on the Knavesmire.

Covert operation at York