screening

English

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Noun

screening (countable and uncountable, plural screenings)

1. (uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

   I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.

2. The process of checking or filtering.

   The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.

3. The showing of a film
4. The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
5. (in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
6. (soccer) shielding
7. (medicine) A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.

Translations

Mesh material that is used to screen

• Finnish: suojaus
• French: protection (fr) f
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• Russian: экрани́рование (ru) n (ekranírovanije), засло́нка (ru) f (zaslónka), сетка (ru) f (setka)

The process of checking or filtering

• Finnish: tarkastus (fi)
• Romanian: screening n
• Russian: отбо́р (ru) m (otbór), скри́нинг (ru) m (skríning), фильтра́ция (ru) f (filʹtrácija)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: skrining, perlustracija (sh), probir
• Spanish: cribado (es) m
• Swedish: screening (sv) c

The showing of a film

• Finnish: esitys (fi)
• French: projection (fr) f
• Hungarian: vetítés (hu)
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• Romanian: ecranizare (ro) f
• Russian: экраниза́ция (ru) f (ekranizácija), просмо́тр (ru) m (prosmótr)
• Serbo-Croatian: projekcija (sh)

Verb

screening

1. present participle of screen

Anagrams

• recensing, secerning

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English screening.

Noun

screening m (uncountable)

1. screening

   Synonym: cribado