(obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
(architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
(fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
(zoology) The lowerlip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
(Puebloan, anthropology) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American masks. (The term is objected as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasizes imitation but ignores power and representational intent.)
(intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade
(intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way
(transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
(transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting the associated bit.
Esimerkit
a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.
They must all be masked and vizarded
Masking the business from the common eye
to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged[...]
When should you mask a specific interrupt, rather than disabling all interrupts?