flameout
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts."
- "She was part of a weave of girls at Miss Rutgers's School, a mesh so fine and scarily intimate that even her mother's flameout and jail sentence […] couldn't dissolve it."
- "The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain."
- "Bombardier’s core lock screening procedure requires a cool-down period before engine shutdown to stabilize internal temperatures and clearances. However, this procedure does not produce the more severe thermal distress associated with the high power, high altitude flameouts that were experienced during the accident flight. As stated in the Safety Board’s November 20, 2006, safety recommendation letter to the FAA, the successful demonstration of Bombardier’s flight test procedure might not ensure that an engine will not experience core lock if the core is allowed to stop rotating after a high power, high altitude flameout. In its letter, the Board noted that the No. 1 accident engine had successfully passed the screening procedure during initial production acceptance testing."