Whitening, Whitener or Whiten may refer to:

Processes or techniques

  • Cloud whitening, a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique
  • Key whitening, increasing the security of a cryptographic cipher
  • Racial whitening, an ideology in Brazil 1889–1914
  • Blanqueamiento, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
  • Signal whitening, decorrelation in signal processing
  • Skin whitening, using chemical substances to lighten the skin
  • Software whitening, an approach to coping with bias in random number generation
  • Tooth whitening, in dentistry
  • Whitening (leather processing), a leather production process
  • Whitening transformation, in mathematics

People

  • Andrew Whiten (born 1948), a British zoologist and psychologist
  • Colette Whiten (born 1945), Canadian sculptor and artist
  • Mark Whiten (born 1966), American baseball player
  • Tim Whiten (born 1941), an American-born Canadian artist
  • Basil Lee Whitener (1915–1989), an American politician
  • Catherine Evans Whitener (1880–1964), a textile artisan in Georgia, US
  • Gordon Whitener, founder, chairman, and CEO of The Whitener Company, a Tennessee-based consulting and investment firm
  • Helen Whitener (born 1964/1965), a Trinidadian-American attorney and jurist
  • Paul Whitener (1911–1959), an American landscape painter and museum director
  • Todd Whitener (born 1978), an American musician

Other uses

  • Corrective fluid, a white fluid applied to paper to mask errors in text
  • Non-dairy creamer, commonly called tea whitener or coffee whitener
  • Optical brightener, an additive used to enhance the appearance of colour of fabric and paper
  • Stress-whitening, where a white line appears when a material is stressed by bending or punching

See also

  • Albicans (disambiguation)
  • Whitten (disambiguation)
  • Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co, 2002 Supreme Court of Canada case