Whitening

Whitening, Whitener or Whiten may refer to:

Processes or techniques

 * Cloud whitening, a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique
 * Key whitening, increasing the security of a cryptographic cipher
 * Racial whitening, an ideology in Brazil 1889–1914
 * Blanqueamiento, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
 * Signal whitening, decorrelation in signal processing
 * Skin whitening, using chemical substances to lighten the skin
 * Software whitening, an approach to coping with bias in random number generation
 * Tooth whitening, in dentistry
 * Whitening (leather processing), a leather production process
 * Whitening transformation, in mathematics

People

 * Andrew Whiten (born 1948), a British zoologist and psychologist
 * Colette Whiten (born 1945), Canadian sculptor and artist
 * Mark Whiten (born 1966), American baseball player
 * Tim Whiten (born 1941), an American-born Canadian artist
 * Basil Lee Whitener (1915–1989), an American politician
 * Catherine Evans Whitener (1880–1964), a textile artisan in Georgia, US
 * Gordon Whitener, founder, chairman, and CEO of The Whitener Company, a Tennessee-based consulting and investment firm
 * Helen Whitener (born 1964/1965), a Trinidadian-American attorney and jurist
 * Paul Whitener (1911–1959), an American landscape painter and museum director
 * Todd Whitener (born 1978), an American musician

Other uses

 * Corrective fluid, a white fluid applied to paper to mask errors in text
 * Non-dairy creamer, commonly called tea whitener or coffee whitener
 * Optical brightener, an additive used to enhance the appearance of colour of fabric and paper
 * Stress-whitening, where a white line appears when a material is stressed by bending or punching