Screening
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Screening, in general, is the investigation of a great number of something (for instance, people) looking for those with a particular problem or feature. One example is at an airport, where many bags get x-rayed to try to detect any which may contain weapons or explosives. People are also screened going through a metal detector. Even though the procedure aims at a large number of screens, it is always equivalent to sampling in statistics, because the complete population is almost always unaccessible for screening.
Screening has other, more specific meanings:
- In physics, electric field screening refers to the dampening of an electric field by mobile charges
- Screening (economics)
- Screening (medicine)
- Screening for pharmacological activity during drug discovery
- part of the process of Environmental impact assessment.
- hampering an opponent's attempts at reconnaissance
- a type of tactic (sometimes legal, sometimes not) in sport games such as basketball or volleyball
- a screening can refer to the display of a film in a movie theatre or screening room
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