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Masking can mean:
Look up masking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Arts and media
- Masking (art), protecting a selected area from change during production, as with tape and stencils
- Masking (illustration), an art technique that influences the intended perception of a character
- MASKING, the stage name of Masuki Satō, a fictional character from BanG Dream!
Data protection
- Data masking, replacing data with random characters or data to conceal sensitive information
- Blinded experiment, in which data is masked to prevent bias
- Masking (Electronic Health Record), patient-requested concealment of information from healthcare providers
- Masking and unmasking by intelligence agencies, to protect the privacy of unintentional surveillance targets
- Sound masking, intentional introduction of background sounds to improve comfort and privacy
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Sensory phenomena
- Auditory masking, sensory phenomena where perception of one sound is affected by another
- Visual masking
- Backward masking, in psychovisual or psychoacoustics
Other technologies
- Mask (computing), AND'ing or OR'ing a bit pattern with another bit pattern to select certain bits
- Masking agent, a reagent used in chemical analysis which reacts with chemical species which may interfere in the analysis
- Sound masking, intentional introduction of background sounds to improve comfort and privacy
- Spectral mask, a method for reducing adjacent-channel interference in broadcast applications
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Other uses
- Masking (behavior), in which an individual changes their personality to conform to social pressure
- Autistic masking, the suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of social difficulties in autistic people
- Female masking, a form of male cross-dressing
- Applying or using a facial mask
- Character mask, a concept in Marxist philosophy
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