plural of hidage

(now chiefly dialectal) A hiding-place; a sheltered spot. / (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A cluster, small group of buildings, etc. set close together; a huddle.

(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To hide; conceal. / (intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To nestle closely; take shelter. / (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shelter (in one's arms).

(idiomatic) To be unnoticeable, by staying visible in a setting that masks presence.

(Internet) A proxy that hides the complexity of and controls access to a complex set of classes.

(idiomatic, slang, humorous, euphemistic) To have sex (where a penis is involved).

(software, object-oriented programming) Synonym of information hiding

(software, object-oriented programming) The technique to hide information so that it is invisible from the outside of an object. (It is a principle of segregation of design decisions that are most likely to change, so that other parts of the program are protected from extensive modification.)

A statistical Markov model in which the system being modelled is assumed to be a Markov process with unobserved (hidden) states.

plural of Hiddlestoner