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• n  an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds
• v  cover up with a liquid correction fluid
• v  lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain

• This is a whiteout, and in it, pilots may become dizzy and nauseated as they grope blindly for a surface which can vanish even as they come in for their landing.
• For spring the "it" shade is no shade at allor a total whiteout.
• Overwhelmed suddenly by the fury of snow, the bitterness of the wind and the blindness of a near zero-visibility whiteout, the climbers came to a desperate, shivering halt.

• white out
• white-out

News & Articles

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• Court Rulings Don't Confirm Autism-Vaccine Link
  There's a post making the rounds courtesy of something called "Whiteout Press" with the headline "Courts confirm vaccines cause autism." It's spreading across sites, through chains of elementary school parent communities, and onto radars of other communities that overlap. In other words, it's viral. If only there were a vaccine for it.
  Aug. 9, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Michael Cuddyer in MLB.com
  We're going to have a packed house,said Michael Cuddyer. "Maybe we'll have a whiteout. Chicago last year had a blackout -- maybe we'll have a whiteout in the Dome."
• Pat LaMarche in Boston Globe (registration)
  LaMarche said she wishes "that I had a gallon of whiteout" to fix problems written into the proposal, which cannot be changed at this late stage.
• John McCain in Toronto Sun
  I remember when they first came, Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick, WhiteOut in the desert, playoffs, Roenick with the broken jaw, those were exciting times,McCain told the newspaper.