whiteout
IPA: hwˈaɪtaʊt
noun
- A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
- (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
- (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.
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