Skim or skimming may refer to:
Sports and games
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Skimboarding
Skimboarding or skimming is a boardsport in which a skimboard (much like a surfboard but smaller and without fins) is used to glide across the water's surface to meet an incoming breaking wave, and ride it back to shore. Wave-riding skimboarders ...
, also skimming, a sport which involves riding a board on wet sand or shallow water
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Snowmobile skipping
Snowmobile skipping, snowmobile watercross, snowmobile skimming, water skipping or puddle jumping is a sport and/or exhibition where snowmobile racers hydroplane their sleds across lakes or rivers.
Basics
Snowmobile watercross consists of crossin ...
, also known as skimming, operating a snowmobile on water
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Stone skimming, skipping or bouncing a stone on a water surface
Money, crime, and business
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Price skimming
Price skimming is a price setting strategy that a firm can employ when launching a product or service for the first time. By following this price skimming method and capturing the extra profit a firm is able to recoup its sunk costs quicker as we ...
, a marketing term
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Skimming (credit card fraud)
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The Pa ...
, a type of credit card fraud
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Skimming (fraud)
A form of white-collar crime, skimming is taking cash "off the top" of the daily receipts of a business (or from any cash transaction involving a third interested party) and officially reporting a lower total. The formal legal term is defalcation. ...
, a type of cash fraud
Computers and cybercrime
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Skim (software)
Skim is an open-source PDF reader. It is notably the first free software PDF reader for Mac OS X. It is written in Objective-C, and uses Cocoa APIs. It is released under a BSD license. It is also cited as being able to help annotate and read sc ...
, an open-source PDF reader
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Smart Common Input Method
The Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is a platform for inputting more than thirty languages on computers, including Chinese-Japanese-Korean style character languages ( CJK), and many European languages. It is used for POSIX-style operating syste ...
, also called 'SKIM' when optimized for the K Desktop Environment
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Web skimming
Web skimming, formjacking or a magecart attack is an attack where the attacker injects malicious code into a website and extracts data from an HTML form that the user has filled in. That data is then submitted to a server under control of the att ...
, the stealing of payment information via malware injection
Other
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Skimming (reading)
Speed reading is any of many techniques claiming to improve one's ability to read quickly. Speed-reading methods include chunking and minimizing subvocalization. The many available speed-reading training programs may utilize books, videos, ...
, a process or technique of speed reading
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''Skim'' (graphic novel), a Canadian coming-of-age graphic novel
See also
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Skim milk
Skimmed milk (British English), or skim milk (American English), is made when all the milkfat is removed from whole milk. It tends to contain around 0.1% fat.
Background
Historically, skimmed milk was used for fattening pigs, and was recommended ...
or skimmed milk, a variety of milk from which the fat has been removed
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Skimmer (disambiguation)
Skimmer may refer to: Animals
* Skimmer (bird), a common name for birds in the genus ''Rynchops''
* Skimmer (dragonfly), a common name for dragonflies in the family Libellulidae
* Water strider or skimmer, a common name for insects in the family ...
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Skin (disambiguation)
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