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blanking

verb

Meaning

  1. To make void; to erase.
  2. To ignore (a person) deliberately.
  3. To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.
  4. To become blank.
  5. To be temporarily unable to remember.
  6. An instance of something being blanked out.
  7. A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
  8. The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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