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Definition of Masking
1. Noun. The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it. "The cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft"
Generic synonyms: Concealing, Concealment, Hiding
Derivative terms: Cover, Cover, Cover, Mask, Screen
2. Noun. The blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation. "He studied auditory masking by pure tones"
3. Noun. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen.
Definition of Masking
1. Verb. (third-person singular of mask) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Masking
1. a piece of scenery used to conceal parts of a stage from the audience [n -S]
Medical Definition of Masking
1. 1. The use of noise of any kind to interfere with the audibility of another sound. For any given intensity, low pitched tones have a greater masking effect than those of a high pitch. 2. In audiology, the use of a noise applied to one ear while testing the hearing acuity of the other ear. 3. The hiding of smaller rhythms in the brain wave record by larger and slower ones whose wave form they distort. 4. In dentistry, an opaque covering used to camouflage the metal parts of a prosthesis. 5. In radiography, superimposition of an altered positive image on the original negative to produce an enhanced copy photographically. See: subtraction. (05 Mar 2000)
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