screening
Noun
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Noun
screening
- (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.
- (volleyball) Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.
- French: protection
- Russian: экрани́рование
- Russian: отбо́р
- Spanish: cribado
- French: projection
- Russian: экраниза́ция
- Spanish: cribado
- present participle of screen#English|screen
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