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🎭 Hidden or disguised 🦉 With face markings 🔒 Hidden information
masked

masked

1 5.1
Having personal details hidden or changed so nobody can identify a person
  • adjective
  • /mæskt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : enmascarado
  • To comply with privacy regulations, all personal information must be masked before sharing the dataset.

Your IP address disguised, your location masked.

Examples

  • If 1500 Hz is used as a guide, it is speculated that "satisfied" hearing aid users will show greater reduction in masked threshold than unhappy users.

    Academic text (1993)

  • A limitation of column-level masking is that you can only mask columns with NULL and not, for example, a string of "MASKED."

    Blog text (13)

  • And I'm going to say create masked layer from selection.

  • The younger the child, the higher the masked threshold.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The algorithm provided a 71% correct detection at the masked threshold.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The sensitive data in the report was masked to protect the identities of the participants.

  • In the software, the user's credit card number is masked to prevent unauthorized access.

Synonyms

hidden
vsmasked
125 1.1

A thing that is not easily seen or found

applies specifically to sensitive data rather than general concealment
veiled
vsmasked
25 6.2

Partly hidden or not said clearly

focuses on technical removal of identifiers to prevent identification
disguised
vsmasked
6 4.2

Hidden so people do not know the true identity or purpose

aims to remove or obscure identifiers for legitimate data privacy not deception
cloaked
vsmasked
4 6.8

Hidden so people cannot see the true purpose or meaning

focuses on concealing identifying parts in data for privacy not figurative cover

Compounds

masked ball
  • Formal
2 4.3

A formal party where people wear masks and fancy costumes

masked shrew
  • US
8.9

A small, common shrew with a dark head and back that lives in wet places in North America

How Identifiable

identifiable
32 3.7
masked
  • Specialized
1 5.1
anonymous
317 4.5

Surface Forms

masked positive

Morphology

masked = mask (transparent) = mask + ed

Derived from the verb 'mask' used in a technical sense ('to hide or obfuscate data'); the morphological relation is straightforward even if the usage is domain-specific.

Etymology

Masked comes from mask, a 'face cover' that hides what is under it, so in computing 'masked' data has the sensitive parts covered or changed so people cannot see who it belongs to.