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Cleaning (disambiguation)

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Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment.

Cleaning may also refer to:

Digital technology

  • Data cleansing or data cleaning, the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database
  • Data scrubbing, an error correction technique applied to main memory or storage
  • Infrared cleaning, a technique used by some film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan
  • Sanitization (classified information), the removal of sensitive information from a document or other message

Other uses

See also