different between whiteout vs greyout

English

Alternative forms

• white-out

Etymology

white +? out

Pronunciation

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.
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.
7. The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.

Translations

See also

• blackout
• brownout

Further reading

• whiteout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• withoute

English

Alternative forms

• grayout

Noun

greyout (plural greyouts)

1. A transient loss of vision caused by hypoxia and characterized by a perceived dimming of light and color, sometimes accompanied by a loss of peripheral vision.

   Coordinate term: blackout