blanking
noun
- making void or erasing
Wiktionary
noun
- An instance of something being blanked out.
- A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
- 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.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of blank