Crossword clues for blanking
blanking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blank \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.] [Cf. 3d Blanch.]
To make void; to annul. [Obs.]
--Spenser.-
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instance of something being blanked out. 2 A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece. 3 (context television English) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture. vb. (present participle of blank English)
Wikipedia
In raster scan equipment, an image is built up by scanning an electron beam from left to right across a screen to produce a visible trace of one scan line, reducing the brightness of the beam to zero ( horizontal blanking), moving it back as fast as possible to the left of the screen at a slightly lower position (the next scan line), restoring the brightness, and continuing until all the lines have been displayed and the beam is at the bottom right of the screen. Its intensity is then reduced to zero again ( vertical blanking), and it is rapidly moved to the top left to start again, creating the next frame.
In television, in particular, the vertical blanking interval is long to accommodate the slow equipment available at the time the standard was set. Fast modern electronics allows digital information to be encoded into the signal during the vertical blanking interval; it is not displayed on screen as the beam is blanked, but can be processed by appropriate circuitry.
Blanking may refer to:
- Blanking (metalworking), a metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet metal workpiece
Usage examples of "blanking".
I will bleeping kick your blankety-blank-blank-bleeping blanking ass into blanking next blanking week.
Ah, but to Barren, making blanking palm-frond hats meant we had to climb the tallest blanker-blanking palm trees to get the tenderest, greenest, most lush blanking palm fronds on the whole blanking island.
And he honed my administrative skills by making me type all his blanking platoon reports.
Together they had located four diplomas from the four most prestigious universities in the region, and by blanking out the names of the recipients, they had a stack of fine-looking pieces of paper on which a woman with a smooth handwriting could inscribe the names of purchasers.
As was Savi’s custom when on sabbaticals from the world, she blanked all of the com and fax connections she was capable of blanking.
She had shut thoughts of Gray from her mind last night, ignoring the lingering throb from his use of her body, even blanking him out while she showered away the evidence of that use.
I skipped e-mail and tried to focus on the overnight stress tests, but my mind was blanking.
The blast would have been equivalent to thousands of hydrogen bombs, it would have thrown enormous quantities of dust into the atmosphere, blanking out sunlight for years, and if it happened to hit the ocean, a better than 50/50 chance, it would cause huge tidal waves and a short-lived burst of superheated steam.