Definition of "binning"

present participle and gerund of bin  examples

(statistics) A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often the central value.  examples

The process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units.  examples

The categorization of finished products based on their characteristics.  examples

The process of combining charge from adjacent pixels of an image sensor during readout.  examples

The process of downscaling a digital image (or any array) by combining blocks of adjacent elements by taking the sum, average, median, minimum, or maximum of each block.  examples