Cloud whitening
Marine cloud brightening also known as marine cloud seeding and marine cloud engineering is a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique that would make clouds brighter, reflecting a small fraction of Solar irradiance, incom ...
, a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique
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Key whitening
In cryptography, key whitening is a technique intended to increase the security of an iterated block cipher. It consists of steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
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The most common form of key whitening is xor-encrypt-xor -- ...
, increasing the security of a cryptographic cipher
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Racial whitening
Racial whitening, or "whitening" (''blanqueamiento, branqueamento''), is an ideology that was widely accepted in Brazil between 1889 and 1914, as the solution to the "Negro problem".Skidmore, Thomas. Black Into White: Race and Nationality in B ...
, an ideology in Brazil 1889–1914
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Blanqueamiento
Blanqueamiento, branqueamento, or whitening, is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries in the Americas and Oceania to "improve the race" (''mejorar la raza'') towards a supposed ideal of whiteness. The ...
, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
* Signal whitening, decorrelation in signal processing
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Skin whitening
Skin whitening, also known as skin lightening and skin bleaching, is the practice of using chemical substances in an attempt to lighten the skin or provide an even skin color by reducing the melanin concentration in the skin. Several chemicals ha ...
, using chemical substances to lighten the skin
* Software whitening, an approach to coping with bias in random number generation
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Tooth whitening
Tooth whitening or tooth bleaching is the process of lightening the color of human teeth. Whitening is often desirable when teeth become yellowed over time for a number of reasons, and can be achieved by changing the intrinsic or extrinsic color o ...
, in dentistry
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Whitening (leather processing)
The leather manufacturing process is divided into three sub-processes: preparatory stages, tanning and crusting. All true leathers will undergo these sub-processes. A further sub-process, surface coating may be added into the sequence. The list of ...
, a leather production process
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Whitening transformation A whitening transformation or sphering transformation is a linear transformation that transforms a vector of random variables with a known covariance matrix into a set of new variables whose covariance is the identity matrix, meaning that they ar ...
, in mathematics
People
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Andrew Whiten
David Andrew Whiten, known as Andrew Whiten (born 1948) is a British zoologist and psychologist, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, and Professor Wardlaw Emeritus at University of St Andrews in Scotland.Colette Whiten (born 1945), Canadian sculptor and artist
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Mark Whiten
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Fin ...
(born 1966), American baseball player
* Tim Whiten (born 1941), an American-born Canadian artist
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Basil Lee Whitener
Basil Lee Whitener (May 14, 1915 – March 20, 1989) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from North Carolina between 1957 and 1969.
Whitener was born in York County, South ...
(1915–1989), an American politician
* Catherine Evans Whitener (1880–1964), a textile artisan in Georgia, US
* Gordon Whitener, founder, chairman, and CEO of The Whitener Company, a Tennessee-based consulting and investment firm
* Helen Whitener (born 1964/1965), a Trinidadian-American attorney and jurist
* Paul Whitener (1911–1959), an American landscape painter and museum director
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Todd Whitener
Todd Whitener is an American musician best known from his time with the bands Days of the New and Tantric. He is currently on his own solo project, entitled ''Whitener''. He has released three albums and one extended play since 2012.
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(born 1978), an American musician
Other uses
* Corrective fluid, a white fluid applied to paper to mask errors in text
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Non-dairy creamer
A non-dairy creamer, commonly also called tea whitener or coffee whitener or else just creamer, is a liquid or granular product intended to substitute for milk or cream as an additive to coffee, tea, hot chocolate or other beverages. They do not c ...
, commonly called tea whitener or coffee whitener
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Optical brightener
Optical brighteners, optical brightening agents (OBAs), fluorescent brightening agents (FBAs), or fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs), are chemical compounds that absorb light in the ultraviolet and violet region (usually 340-370 nm) of the ...
, an additive used to enhance the appearance of colour of fabric and paper
* Stress-whitening, where a white line appears when a material is stressed by bending or punching