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blanking

blanking

English

Verb

blanking

present participle of blank

Noun

blanking ‎(plural blankings)

An instance of something being blanked out.
A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
(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.