Noun

(uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.

The process of checking or filtering.

The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.

The showing of a film

The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions

(in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

(soccer) shielding

Noun

(diagnoses)

(medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.

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The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

* Compton Reade

The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

* J. Payn

My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

(taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.

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The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.