The sound or action of something being scraped.
We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.
Automated collection of data, data scraping.
The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data.
present participle and gerund of scrape
From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.
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