The act of removing something from a surface by rubbing or brushing. The scraping of the old paint from the walls took several hours.
A sound produced by something being scraped. The scraping of chairs on the floor was quite loud in the empty room.
The act of collecting data from a website using automated tools. Web scraping is often used to gather information from online sources for analysis.
Matter that has been scraped off a surface, typically appearing as small shavings or fragments (often plural). She brushed the paint scrapings into a dustpan.