Whitening
Whitening, Whitener or Whiten may refer to:
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Processes or techniques
- Cloud whitening, a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique
- Key whitening, increasing the security of a cryptographic cipher
- Racial whitening, an ideology in Brazil 1889–1914
- Blanqueamiento, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
- Signal whitening, decorrelation in signal processing
- Skin whitening, using chemical substances to lighten the skin
- Software whitening, an approach to coping with bias in random number generation
- Tooth whitening, in dentistry
- Whitening (leather processing), a leather production process
- Whitening transformation, in mathematics
People
- Basil Lee Whitener (1915–1989), an American politician
- Andrew Whiten (born 1948), a British zoologist and psychologist
- Colette Whiten (born 1945), Canadian sculptor and artist
- Mark Whiten (born 1966), American baseball player
Other uses
- Non-dairy creamer, commonly called tea whitener or coffee whitener
- Optical brightener, 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
See also
- All pages with titles containing whiten
- All pages with titles containing whitener
- All pages with titles containing whitening
- Albicans (disambiguation)
- Whitten (disambiguation)
- Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co, 2002 Supreme Court of Canada case
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