demask

verb

1. (transitive)To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.

   “The part is etched at a predetermined rate, then rinsed, demasked, and a final rinse is given.”

   “If, however, a large area is pin-holed the part should be demasked and re-coated after remedial action has been taken on the maskant or the application plant.”

   “Strip or demask, clean and desmut as necessary.”

2. (broadly)To remove any masking materials that have been added to protect an area.

   “The first sequence is to mask, paint, bake, then demask; the second sequence is to mask, paint, demask, then bake.”

   “Tools specifically designed to assist in determining when it is safe to demask inside facilities that had chemical and/or biological contamination drawn in through the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems should be created.”

   “Such protection masks shall be removed (demasked) after sealing and coating.”

3. To reveal something that was masked or hidden; to expose; to unmask.

   “When it was learned that the antigen is heatstable , attempts were made to "demask" it in the fresh mucosa by boiling.”

   “Its only purpose is to encourage individuals to "demask" all those, persons or institutions, who lag behind in the "battle of production," or those who do not fully adhere to the current party line, or, in general, to denounce all mistakes, deficiencies and shortcomings in the "building of communism."”

   “An end, but perhaps not the end— at least not if we are willing to demask the frame-up used to demask the frame-up.”

   “For example, boric acid is used to demask fluoride complexes of tin (IV) and molybdenum (VI) .”

   “As we have shown earlier, for a linear function f(z), we can mask the input z with an XOR of a random bit r before the computation and demask with an XOR of f(r) afterward.”

4. To overcome ideological preconceptions and labels.

   “Marxists have always attempted to demask earlier legitimations of power as ideology by interpreting them as expressions of class interest.”

   “It can assist us in the type of iterative questioning that is needed to demask the politics of research by unsettling simplistic oppositions.”

   “What you have suffered is easier to know than what you've done, and harder to demask. It takes a brutally honest victim to demask the victim's status itself.”

   “The objective of a critical criminology is critically to investigate the facts of criminalization and imprisonment, to demask the 'moral and ideological veneer' of an unequal society, and to enliven critical debates about modes of social change towards 'post-capitalist alternatives' (ibid).”

5. To make salient or conspicuous; to draw attention to or improve the perception of.

   “They wished to demask hidden metaphysics, to demask the false pretenses of sentences purportively descriptive but de facto metaphysical or evaluative.”

   “When it it that one may need to demask information inherent in a pixelated image?”

   “Although there are many complications of shape, contrast, and distance, the general effect of the flashed letter is to "demask" a solitary letter or a letter of a word that had been rendered less visible, presumably by the surrounding letters, when it was a part of the word.”