The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fog \Fog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fogging.]
To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
(Photog.) To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fog English)
WordNet
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Wikipedia
Fogging may refer to:
- Distance fog, a technique used in 3D computer graphics
- Fogging (photography), adverse impacts in photography
- Fogging (censorship), a technique for visual censorship
- Anti-fog, substance to prevent fogging of surfaces like glass and plastic
- An assertiveness technique
- Slang term for an electronic cigarette smoking [MJP]
- In agriculture and public health, small spray particles less than 50 micrometres
- Fogging (entomology), a method for collecting insects from forest canopies and for Mosquito control
Fogging in photography is the deterioration in the quality of the image caused either by extraneous light or the effects of a processing chemical.
Fogging is a type of visual censorship. An area for a picture or movie is blurred to obscure it from sight. This form of censorship is used for sexually related images/scenes, hiding genitals, pubic hair, or sexual penetration of any sort. Pixelization is a form of fogging. In Japan, where it is called bokashi, fogging is employed on most films that show pubic hair or genitals, including hardcore pornography.
This form of editing also appears in television programs where an individual's face may not be shown due to legal or privacy concerns. As it does not contrast with the surrounding image very much, it is preferable over most other forms of censorship. Fogging is also used if the scenes which are too bloody and gruesome to be rendered even in black and white, over vehicle license plates, mainly to protect the identities of the vehicles' owners, and over branded items and specific company names to obscure their background.
Fogging is a technique used for killing insects that involves using a fine pesticide spray ( aerosol) which is directed by a blower. In some cases a hot vapour may be used to carry the spray and keep it airborne for longer. Fast acting pesticides like pyrethroids are typically used. This is widely used for sampling or studying insects in the canopy of tall of forests which cannot be effectively reached. The floor below the trees are lined with plastic sheets and the fog causes insects to fall in a rain. These are collected for later study in the laboratory.
Fogging is also used for controlling insects in closed spaces like greenhouses, homes and basements.
Usage examples of "fogging".
Laurel had diddled me, good, with all her talk of the security fluoroscope fogging up a roll of microfilm if a nurse tried to walk out with it.
As usual it was frigid on the parapet, his breath fogging, and yet Galba felt no cold.
Water was filtered through that before it went into the fogging nozzles that lung in all the concourses and ramps to the stadium bowl itself.
Jallrii's gaze narrowed and the end of the dehumidifying mask over his snout began to show signs of fogging.
The newcomers, three-year Academy men or reserve ensigns, gloried in their prima-donna freedom from ship routine: sleeping late, playing acey-deucey and cards, fogging the ready rooms with tobacco smoke, drinking gallons of coffee and lemonade, eating big meals and great mounds of ice cream, killing time between drills and lectures with chatter of sex, shore leave airplane mishaps, and the like, perpetrating ham-handed practical jokes.
His only company was an antique brass furnace that did an admirable job of fogging up the windows in the colder months.
Touching our Phoenix Rangers' nuisance at the meeting of the waitresses, the daintylines, Elsies from Chelsies, the two legglegels in blooms, and those pest of parkies, twitch, thistle and charlock, were they for giving up their fogging trespasses by order which we foregathered he must be raw in cane sugar, the party, no, Jimmy MacCawthelock?
Anything under twenty meant that nobody would notice anything remiss in the fog cooling system, because residual pressure would' maintain the fogging stream.
The tap wenches were handing out seidls of beer, the lemonade and Eis butchers were handing out paper cones of their products, the wurst braziers were fogging the air blue—and the few Viennese not eating something were busily buying gimcracks from the slum stalls.
The way the fogging system worked, it would take about thirty minutes for the nanocapsules to get into the entire fogging system.
Tuleon was urbanized but hardly urbane, and Flinx had learned early on that large amounts of credit had a way of fogging Truth's vision.
Tuleon was urbanized but hardly urbane, and Flinx had learned early on that large amounts of credit had a way of fogging Truth's vision.
As Kluge watched, Vona and Succiu each produced two small leather belts, while Zabarra picked up the fogging goblet and watched attentively.