blanking

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of blank
2. noun An instance of something being blanked out.
3. noun A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
4. noun The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.

Similar words

dummy empty uncommunicative space incommunicative clean unloaded white lacuna blank shell

Often followed by

interval out and period pulse level die pulses dies