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unsharping

unsharping is the present participle and gerund of unsharp.

Meaning of unsharp

Verb

unsharp (third-person singular simple present unsharps, present participle unsharping, simple past and past participle unsharped)

  1. (transitive) To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.

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Questions about unsharping

What is unsharping the present participle and gerund of?
Unsharping is the present participle and gerund of unsharp.

Words near unsharping in the dictionary

  1. unsharpen
  2. unsharpenable
  3. unsharpened
  4. unsharpening
  5. unsharpens
  6. unsharping
  7. unsharpness
  8. unsharps
  9. unsharred
  10. unsharring
  11. unshars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsharping (page history and authors); unsharp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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