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Webster 1828 Edition
Screening
SCREE'NING
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Definition 2024
screening
screening
English
Noun
screening (countable and uncountable, plural screenings)
- (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.
- The process of checking or filtering.
- The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.
- The showing of a film
- The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
- (in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
- (soccer) shielding
- (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
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The process of checking or filtering
The showing of a film
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Verb
screening
- present participle of screen