demask

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.

   • The part is etched at a predetermined rate, then rinsed, demasked, and a final rinse is given.
   • If, however, a large area is pin-holed the part should be demasked and re-coated after remedial action has been taken on the maskant or the application plant.
   • Strip or demask, clean and desmut as necessary.
2. 2

   To remove any masking materials that have been added to protect an area.

   • The first sequence is to mask, paint, bake, then demask; the second sequence is to mask, paint, demask, then bake.
   • Tools specifically designed to assist in determining when it is safe to demask inside facilities that had chemical and/or biological contamination drawn in through the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems should be created.
   • Such protection masks shall be removed (demasked) after sealing and coating.
3. 3

   To reveal something that was masked or hidden

   To reveal something that was masked or hidden; to expose; to unmask.

   • When it was learned that the antigen is heatstable , attempts were made to "demask" it in the fresh mucosa by boiling.
   • An end, but perhaps not the end— at least not if we are willing to demask the frame-up used to demask the frame-up.
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   1. 4

      To overcome ideological preconceptions and labels.

      • Marxists have always attempted to demask earlier legitimations of power as ideology by interpreting them as expressions of class interest.
      • It can assist us in the type of iterative questioning that is needed to demask the politics of research by unsettling simplistic oppositions.
      • What you have suffered is easier to know than what you've done, and harder to demask. It takes a brutally honest victim to demask the victim's status itself.
   2. 5

      To make salient or conspicuous

      To make salient or conspicuous; to draw attention to or improve the perception of.

      • They wished to demask hidden metaphysics, to demask the false pretenses of sentences purportively descriptive but de facto metaphysical or evaluative.
      • When it it that one may need to demask information inherent in a pixelated image?

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