whiteout

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Etymology

Deverbal from white out.

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Noun

whiteout (countable and uncountable, plural whiteouts)

  1. A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
  2. 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.
    • 1979, Finn Ronne, Antarctica, My Destiny, Hastings House, →ISBN, page 136:
      A whiteout can best be described as a paradoxical combination of being partially blind, but also being able to see illusions of things. It is like floundering in a sea of cotton; everything looks blurred and white.
  3. Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
  4. (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
  5. (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
  6. The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
    • 1986, Atlantis - Volume 12, page 174:
      Despite the media whiteout, we believe our weapon flashing had communicated the important political message that the nuclear mentality and the masculine mentality are intimately connected.
    • 1992, Mid-American Review - Volume 13, page 97:
      The slightest reference to national security is accepted as excuse enough for a news whiteout.
    • 1998, Ian Loveland, Importing the First Amendment:
      What, for example, have the protagonists of the First Amendment to say about the media whiteout in the United States on the work of such a distinguished radical as Noam Chomsky?
    • 1998, Extra!: The Newsletter of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)., page 8:
      "Who Put the Black Face on Poverty," the show asked. Well, the mainstream media "whiteout" of the story provides a clue.
  7. The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.
    • 2012, H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S., →ISBN:
      While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.
    • 2013, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences, →ISBN:
      Closer to home, I thought about how that same “whiteout” existed in U.S. scholarship on television production and viewership and their cultural flows.
    • 2015, Niinana Kweku, Whiteout, →ISBN:
      We must return to a time where whiteout will no longer exist in our thinking process, and remember, black is not just a color but a totally different way of being.

Translations

correction fluid — see correction fluid

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