whiten

Signification (Anglais)

1. (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
2. To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
3. To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.

Concepts

blanchir

blanc

Synonymes

bleach

whitewash

blanch

pale

white

fade

become white

wash

🧽

make white

turn white

dim

launder

lighten

paint

pelt

peroxide

pipe-clay

purify

scald

shower

🚿

snow

❄️

whitening

become pale

decolor

decolorise

decolour

decolourise

make pure

paint white

white-wash

grow white

lime wash

be white snow

bleaching

bleach out

blench

clean

cleanse

clear

decolorize

decolourize

decorate

exonerate

Traductions

blanquear

imbiancare

ασπρίζω

sbiancare

weißen

witten

λευκαίνω

bleken

branquear

wit maken

bleichen

emblanquecer

ağarmak

albare

ağartmak

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈ(h)waɪ̯.tən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: whitenen

Appartenant à islandais: hvítna

Appartenant à suédois: vitna

Appartenant à danois: hvidne

Appartenant à ancien anglais: hwītian

In summary

From Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).