Definition of Censoring

1. Noun. Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy.

Exact synonyms: Censorship, Security Review
Specialized synonyms: Military Censorship, National Censorship
Generic synonyms: Counterintelligence

2. Noun. Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances.
Exact synonyms: Censorship
Generic synonyms: Deletion
Specialized synonyms: Bowdlerism, Comstockery
Derivative terms: Censor

Definition of Censoring

1. Verb. (present participle of censor) ¹

2. Noun. An act of censorship. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Censoring

1. censor [v] - See also: censor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Censoring

cenovis
cens
cense
censed
censer
censers
censes
censing
censitary
censor
censor morum
censorable
censored
censorial
censorian
censoring (current term)
censorings
censorious
censoriously
censoriousness
censorless
censors
censorship
censorships
censorware
censour
censours
censual
censurability
censurable

Literary usage of Censoring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Likelihood Principle by James O. Berger, Robert L. Wolpert (1988)
"Data is often observed in censored form, and the mechanisms causing the censoring can be quite involved. In most such cases, the LP (or RLP) will imply that ..."

2. Analysis of Censored Data: Proceedings of the Workshop on Analysis of by Hira L. Koul, J. V. Deshpande (1995)
"censoring relates to lifetime data analysis for mechanistic or biologic system. ... In either context, censoring may be defined as a termination of the ..."

3. Mixture Models: Theory, Geometry, and Applications by Bruce G... Lindsay (1995)
"censoring problems. Another important class of nonparametric problems that have hidden mixture structure arise in censoring problems. ..."

4. Topics in Statistical Dependence by Henry W. Block, Allan R. Sampson, Thomas H. Savits (1990)
"Consider the randomly censored model where X is the survival time, Y is the censoring time, and where Y is assumed to be independent of X. We observe (Z, ..."

5. Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for Constance Van Eeden by Constance van Eeden, Marc Moore, Sorana Froda, Christian Léger (2003)
"This assumption is acceptable for administrative censoring associated ... For such withdrawals, Frangakis and Rubin (2001) use the term dropout censoring. ..."

6. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"... (3) censoring of parcels sent from Gothenburg to New York; (4) Seizure of letter mail on steamship Frisia Steamship Hellig Olaf, 109 bags containing ..."

7. Red Russia by John Foster Fraser (1907)
"censoring—What the Suppression of a Newspaper means—The Official Organ of ... What good this censoring does is not clear. I am sure that not more than one ..."

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