0 the act of removing the surface from something using a sharp edge or something rough :
1 the activity of taking information from a website or computer screen and putting it into spreadsheet (= an electronic document in which information is arranged in rows and columns and can be used in calculations) on a computer:
To increase sensitivity, at least 12 scrapings for each juvenile fox, and at least 21 for each adult fox were examined.
The classical method for the diagnosis of scabies is by microscopical demonstration of the mites and their eggs in skin scrapings.
These fish were used for infection experiments and skin scrapings.
Scraping reduced diatom and bacterial cell densities on the dishes to <1% of original cell densities.
Genetic fingerprinting from blood samples or cheek scrapings were used in cases where the questionnaire was inconclusive.
Then he told the boy to bring in scrapings of whalebone.
Decoration was by finger scraping of slip before it dried.
Several ovaries were dissected under a stereomicroscope and the ovules were removed from the placenta by gentle scraping.