blanking

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Verb[edit]

blanking

  1. present participle and gerund of blank

Noun[edit]

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blanking (countable and uncountable, plural blankings)

  1. An instance of something being blanked out.
  2. (metalworking) A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
  3. (television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
    • 2001, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 73:
      Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.
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