Whitening
# 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
