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screening
This term carries a clinical or administrative weight, suggesting a filtered approach where the goal is to separate the desired from the undesired. It implies a threshold or a gatekeeping mechanism, whether in medicine, employment, or security, where an initial broad check narrows down a large group to a few specific cases. In the context of cinema, it shifts from a process of elimination to a process of revelation. It describes the act of projecting a story onto a screen, moving the word from a sense of restriction and filtering to one of exhibition and public viewing.
Countable when referring to a specific event or session, such as a movie screening. Uncountable when referring to the general medical or administrative process of screening.
Meanings
The process of testing or examining people or things to identify specific characteristics or problems.
"The clinic is conducting a mass screening for diabetes."
The first public showing of a movie or film.
"The advance screening of the movie was attended by critics."