Skim or skimming may refer to:
Sports and games
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Skimboarding
Skimboarding or skimming is a boardsport in which a skimboard (much like a surfboard but smaller and without fins) is used to glide across the water's surface to meet an incoming breaking wave, and ride it back to shore. There are currently 3 U ...
, also skimming, a sport which involves riding a board on wet sand or shallow water
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Snowmobile skipping
Snowmobile skipping, snowmobile watercross, snowmobile skimming, water skipping or puddle jumping is a sport and/or exhibition where snowmobile racers Hydroplaning (tires), hydroplane their sleds across lakes or rivers.
Basics
Snowmobile watercro ...
, also known as skimming, operating a snowmobile on water
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Stone skimming, skipping or bouncing a stone on a water surface
Money, crime, and business
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Price skimming
Price skimming is a price strategy where a marketer initially offers an item at a high price so that consumers with the strongest desire and funds to purchase it will, and then as that demand is depleted the price gets lowered to the next layer ...
, a marketing term
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Skimming (credit card fraud)
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The P ...
, a type of credit card fraud
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Skimming (fraud)
A form of white-collar crime, skimming is taking cash "off the top" of the daily receipts of a business (or from any cash transaction involving a third interested party) and officially reporting a lower total. The formal legal term is defalcation ...
, a type of cash fraud
Computers and cybercrime
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Skim (software)
Skim is an open-source PDF reader. It is notably the first free software PDF reader for macOS. It is written in Objective-C, and uses Cocoa APIs. It is released under a BSD license. It is also cited as being able to help annotate and read scien ...
, an open-source PDF reader
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Smart Common Input Method
The Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is a platform for inputting more than thirty languages on computers, including Chinese-Japanese-Korean style character languages (CJK characters, CJK), and many European languages. It is used for POSIX-style ...
, also called 'SKIM' when optimized for the K Desktop Environment
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Web skimming
Web skimming, formjacking or a magecart attack is an attack in which the attacker injects malicious code into a website and extracts data from an HTML form that the user has filled in. That data is then submitted to a server under control of the ...
, the stealing of payment information via malware injection
Other
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Skimming (reading)
Speed reading is any of many techniques claiming to improve one's ability to read quickly. Speed-reading methods include chunking and minimizing subvocalization. The many available speed-reading training programs may utilize books, videos, ...
, a process or technique of speed reading
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''Skim'' (graphic novel), a Canadian coming-of-age graphic novel
See also
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Skim milk
Skimmed milk (British English), or skim milk (American English), is made when all the milkfat is removed from whole milk. It tends to contain around 0.1% to 0.3% fat.
Background
Historically, skimmed milk was used for fattening pigs, and was re ...
or skimmed milk, a variety of milk from which the fat has been removed
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Skimmer (disambiguation)
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Skin (disambiguation)
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