The process of removing flesh from a body to leave only the skeleton. The forensic team studied the skeletonization of the remains to determine the time of death.
The act of reducing something to its essential parts or structure. The skeletonization of the business plan helped the team focus on the core objectives.
(Computing, image processing) A morphological operation that reduces a digital image or shape to its skeletal representation. Skeletonization of the binary image produced a one-pixel-wide outline of the letters.