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Arts

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Screen printing Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open me ...
(also called ''silkscreening''), a method of printing *
Big screen A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
, a nickname associated with the motion picture industry *
Split screen (filmmaking) In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of ...
, a film composition paradigm in which multiple distinct film sequences are shown simultaneously and next to each other * Stochastic screening and Halftone photographic screening, methods of simulating grays with one-color printing


Filtration and selection processes

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Screening (economics) Screening in economics refers to a strategy of combating adverse selection – one of the potential decision-making complications in cases of asymmetric information – by the agent(s) with less information. For the purposes of screening, asymmetr ...
, the process of identifying or selecting members of a population based on one or more selection criteria * Screening (biology), idem, on a scientific basis, ** of which a
genetic screen A genetic screen or mutagenesis screen is an experimental technique used to identify and select individuals who possess a phenotype of interest in a mutagenized population. Hence a genetic screen is a type of phenotypic screen. Genetic screens ...
is a procedure to identify a particular kind of phenotype ** the Irwin screen is a toxicological procedure *
Sieve A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a device for separation process, separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for controlling the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a warp and weft, woven mesh or n ...
, a mesh used to separate fine particles from coarse ones *