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Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Middle English -les

English noiseless

From noise + -less.

noiseless (comparative more noiseless, superlative most noiseless)

Producing no noise; without noise.
Synonym: noise-free
The movements of the cat were noiseless as it approached the mousehole.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 33:
  For by the hearth the children sit
  ⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death,
  ⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath,
  Or like to noiseless phantoms flit:
  But open converse is there none, […]
Containing no noise.
- 2016, Abdelrahman Desoky, Noiseless Steganography, page 4:
  The core idea of the Nostega paradign is basically camouflaging messages by embedding them in a form of noiseless data by employing either altered authenticated data or legitimate untraceable data, as shown in Section 1.3.

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