blanking

English

Verb

blanking

1. present participle and gerund of blank

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• autoblanking