(agriculture, forestry) Process of removing plants or parts of plants to facilitate the growth of other plants

The state or quality of being thin.

plural of thinness

plants that have been removed in order to improve the growth of the remainder

(finance, stock market) The characteristic of lower trading frequency, commonly observed with lesser known companies and firms listed on the market. It often suggests higher level of investment opportunity and risk for investors, less transparency and less public information.

(idiomatic) In a dangerous, hazardous, or delicate situation; at risk.

(idiomatic) dangerously, hazardously, delicately

(idiomatic) Immediately and inexplicably out of sight.

(simile) Incredibly thin, at an unhealthy-looking level of thinness.

(transitive) To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded / (intransitive) To become sparse.