blanking
noun1
An instance of something being blanked out.
2
Arts, Crafts, Engineering, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Metallurgy, Metalworking, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
3
Broadcasting, Media, Television The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
- Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.2001, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 73:
- Derived terms
- autoblanking