Cover
In telecommunication, cover is the technique of concealing or altering the characteristics of communications patterns for the purpose of denying an unauthorized receiver information that would be of value.
Note: Cover is a process of modulo two addition of a pseudorandom bit stream generated by a cryptographic device with bits from the control message.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
In philately a cover is an envelope or package[?], typically with stamps that have been cancelled.
In pop music a cover is a new version of a previously recorded song. Virtually all pop musicians play covers, as tributes to their mentors, or on the theory that what was a hit before may be a hit again, or to gain credibility from their comparison with the original. A cover band may play only music by one more prominent band or may play music from many sources.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was "to hide from view" as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of "cover again", the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate.
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habitable. Robur might surely have landed on it; if he had not done
convenient spot to beach the aeronef.
While he was waiting for the sun the engineer began the repairs he
were undamaged and had worked admirably amid all the violence of the
At this moment half of them were in action, enough to keep the
propellers had suffered, and more than Robur had thought. Their
they received their rotatory movement.
It was the screw at the bow which was first attacked under Robur's
"Albatross" had to leave before the work was finished. With only this
deck, had sat down aft. Frycollin was strangely reassured. What a
ground!
The work was only interrupted for a moment while the elevation of the
at the time of its culmination he could calculate his position.
The result of the observation, taken with the greatest exactitude,
Latitude, 44° 25' south.
This point on the map answered to the position of the Chatham
miles."
"All the more reason to get our propellers into order," said the
little stores we have left we ought to get to X as soon as possible."
"Yes, Tom, and I hope to get under way tonight, even if I go with one
and their servant?"
"Do you think they would complain if they became colonists of X
Pacific Ocean between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer--an
It was in the north of the South Pacific, a long way out of the route
his little colony, and there the "Albatross" rested when tired.
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