Testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics

Usage examples of screening.

FBI is in the process of building the analytic capability it has long lacked, and it also has the Terrorist Screening Center.

With the antibody identified, scientists could at least be creating blood tests for screening out carriers.

The nondescript office and factory buildings that had lined the autostrada gave way to long cracked-tiled divisions screening the rustic peace of the countryside.

Rutterman drove Major Banning to the Navy Building, where Banning underwent four separate security screenings before reaching his destination.

A swimming person, presumably gilled, screening something diffuse that makes the water green where it had been dark and that gives enough light that Bonny can see the drinks are in highboys and each colored red or blue.

The screening application that Brose made me put through was turned down.

The partizan leadership had been caught by the nerve short-out pulses, but the door and security screening had saved them from the worst effects.

Brenner of our risk-management office has assured me that developing some sort of internal pretreatment screening policy could significantly reduce the number of claims against our non-specialty staff members.

He took the elevator down, handed all the film cans to a waiting projectionist, straightened his tie, and entered the screening room.

Further, the TSA should conduct a human factors study, a method often used in the private sector, to understand problems in screener performance and set attainable objectives for individual screeners and for the checkpoints where screening takes place.

The screening was not eighteen inches from my face, and the terrazzo floor level perhaps eight inches above ground level.

The scene on the sea could not be more tranquil: carriers, battleships, and their screening vessels spreading as far as the eye could see in afternoon sunshine, extending below the horizon north and south, gray familiar shapes of war steaming slowly in AA formation on the mildly foaming blue ocean.

The second lot of African bees had been collected at random, without, regard to screening out the more vicious ones.

These, together with inadequate screening and access controls, continue to present aviation security challenges.

Having been unable to deliver a satisfactory gunfire through screening trees, The Shadow was placing the crooks at the same advantage.