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blank: any piece of metal (e.g. a semi-manufacture) which is ready to be turned into a finished product by a process either of plastic deformation or of stock removal; e.g. the blank of a gear as prepared for the tooth-cutting process, or a razor blade before it has been given an edge
Category: Iron and steel industries

blank: a regimented place of storage where data may be stored, e.g. ,a location in a storage medium; 2.a character on a printer used to indicate an output space in which nothing is printed; 3.a condition of `no information at all` in a given column of a punched card or in a given location in a perforated tape
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

blank: workpiece sheared, cut, routed or punched from flat sheet before further shaping
Category: Mechanical engineering

blank: First print of a leaflet with text omitted.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

blank: Test carried out under specified conditions with all reagents with exception of determined substance to account for consent of this substance in reagents used(2)
Category: Chemistry

blank: a slug cut or punched out of a sheet or strip
Category: Iron and steel industries

blank: a blank sheared or cut such that its contour does not lie entirely within the sheet or strip from which it is obtained
Category: Iron and steel industries

blank: a metal disk covered with lacquer used for reproduction of the original recording
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

blank: a means of sealing a gas main
Category: Iron and steel industries

blank: a part of a data medium in which no characters are recorded
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

blank: a piece of timber cut to a specified size and shape,from which the finished article is made
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blank: an unfinished, possibly stamped metal shape that must be processed further for finishing.
Category: Various industries and crafts

blank: something in an unfinished or incomplete state that is designed for further working or manipulation.
Category: Various industries and crafts

blank: any die-cut, scored and corner-cut or otherwise partially prepared section of boxboard, in the flat, to be formed into a set-up paper box or part thereof, e.g., base blank, tray blank, etc.
Category: Technical and industry in general

blank: my mind became a blank when I heard the question.
Category: Language and literature

blank: something lacking a critical element and used (as in experimental medicine or chemical analysis) to provide a control for comparison with the complete material; esp. a solution for use in a blank determination.
Category: Medicine

blanked: this concerns the Z-axis intensity modulation of the display beam in an oscilloscope.When the beam is 'blanked',the screen will not be illuminated by the electron beam
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

blanket: a rubber sheet in an offset press that receives the inked impression from the plate and transfers it to the surface being printed.
Category: Printing and publishing

blanket: a region of fertile material placed around or within the core of a reactor for the purpose of conversion
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

blanket: a region of fertile material placed around or within the core of a reactor for the purpose of conversion.By extension,the term blanket may be used when the purpose is transformation of non-fertile material
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

blanket: to -- a burning material.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

blanket: insulating material consisting of eel grass, glass silk, mineral wool, etc., with paper lining on each face. Some quilts are backed with aluminum foil to reduce heat losses by radiation.
Category: Building industry

blanket: an endless belt of rubber or fabric which gives a soft, yielding, and uniform surface.
Category: The chemical industry

blanket-type: flexible insulating material formed into sheets or rolls
Category: Mechanical engineering

blanketing: covering the entire field with overhead sprinkling irrigation at night to protect plants and fruit trees from the damaging effects of frost
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blanketing: method of extinguishing fire by producing a smothering or blanketing effect, as with foam, etc.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

blanking: process of making a channel non-effective for a desired interval
Category: News-systems and communications

blanking: cutting off the electron beam in a writing tube
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

blanking: the suppression of the picture signal from a short time before,until a short time after,the synchronising pulse
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

blanking: The suppression of the display of one or more display elements or segments.
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

blanking: the portion of the television signal which occurs after one picture frame is sent and before the next one is transmitted
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

blanking: process of making a channel non effective for a desired interval
Category: News-systems and communications

blanking: separation of a portion of a metal sheet by a continuous cut defining the full contour of the excised portion
Category: Iron and steel industries

blanking: Not displaying a character on the CRT('blank beam').
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

blanking: when pasted on a panel, a white paper mat known as a -surrounds the poster, setting it off like a picture in a frame.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

blanking: shearing out a piece of sheet metal in preparation for deep draying.
Category: General

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