A screening is a phenomenon of apparent covering of an element by another.

In Astronomy, the covering of a star relates to in particular certain eclipses. The expression can also indicate a simple search for darkness, as for the curtains or blinds of screening.

The term is more moderate for occult sciences where it is a question of describing the invisible one, or for the screening of the Collège of' Pataphysique which continued its work in the shade and the secrecy, during 25 years.

In current language, the word screening means to hide quelquechose with an aim dishonest person. The historians use term to describe a political process of Rupture with the past.

The screening is also a Shiite concept of the faith .

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• cosmographic Screening
• pataphysic Screening