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scraping

  • noun

The sound or action of something being scraped.

Other meanings

  1. Something removed by being scraped.

    “the scrapings of roads and ditches”

  2. Automated collection of data, data scraping.

A kind of

  • fragment

Word history

From Middle English "scrapinge".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “scraping” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.