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Smearing vs Blurring - What's the difference?

smearing | blurring |

As verbs the difference between smearing and blurring

is that smearing is while blurring is .

As nouns the difference between smearing and blurring

is that smearing is something smeared or daubed while blurring is a blurry patch.

smearing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something smeared or daubed.
  • blurring

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blurry patch.
  • * 1990 , Donald O. Thompson, ?Dale E. Chimenti, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
  • Several attempts were made to remove the blurrings in the tomograms.