Cleaning (disambiguation)

Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment.

Cleaning may also refer to:

Digital technology

• Data cleansing or data cleaning, the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database
• Data scrubbing, an error correction technique applied to main memory or storage
• Infrared cleaning, a technique used by some film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan
• Sanitization (classified information), the removal of sensitive information from a document or other message

Other uses

• Cleaning (forestry), the practice of selecting desirable trees in a young stand and removing trees that threaten their development
  • Silviculture cleaning, the release of select saplings from competition by overtopping trees of a comparable age
• Organizing, as in professional organizing

See also

• Clean (disambiguation)
• Cleanliness
• Cleansing (disambiguation)