culling

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlɪŋ/

culling

1. present participle and gerund of cull

culling (plural cullings)

1. The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
   • 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport‎:

     It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds.

2. Anything separated or selected from a mass.

• z-culling