blanking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of blank

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An instance of something being blanked out.
2. (countable, uncountable)A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
3. (countable, uncountable)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.”