tearout
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The tearing of tissue at the position of an incision, suture, staple, pin, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually along a perforated line.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and high-energy rhythms.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He's got a bunch of tearouts on the finished side. It's cheaper and easier to redo it than to patch it, but the job's unprofitable either way."
- "The heartwood gave consistently better results than the sapwood, in fact nearly all the tearouts and most of the rough cutting were found in the sapwood."
- "Tearout can also occur below the final depth of cut."
- "This slot is a hot zone for tearout because it creates an unsupported surface for the material being cut."
- "The tearout load is determined by the formula Pₑ - 2AFₓ"
- "Note that computation of tearout strength becomes far more complicated if there are several rows of bolts on each side of the joint."
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Wiktionary places this term in Music.