whiten

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Synonyms: white, whitey, whites, shiten, whited, whiter, whitten, witen, hiten, phiten, whaten

Antonyms: white, whitey, whites, shiten, whited, whiter, whitten, witen, hiten, phiten, whaten

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Verb

1. {{lb|en|ergative}} (To cause) to become [[white]] or [[whiter]]; to [[bleach]] or [[blanch]].
2. {{lb|en|cryptography}} To increase the security of an iterated [[block cipher]] by steps that combine the [[data]] with portions of the [[key]].
3. {{lb|en|statistics}} To [[normalize]] data so that the [[covariance]] matrix becomes the [[identity matrix]]; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.<!-- ety: from "white noise"? noun: [[whitening transformation]] syn: [[sphering transformation]] -->

Proper noun

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