tearout

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Synonym of blowout.

   • 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.
2. 2

   The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.

   • 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.
3. 3

   The tearing of tissue at the position of an incision, suture, staple, pin, etc.

   • When testing the suture tearout force, Tauber and Seidel found that the tearout force was one third to one fourth of normal tissue.
   • The resistance of screws to tearout forces depends chiefly on the screw diameter ( and bone strength ) and on the length of screw thread gripping the bone (cortical thickness).
   • Backward traction on the capsular flap forms the basis of a predictable technique for rescuing the capsulorrhexis from a radial tearout.
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   1. 4

      The demolition phase of remodeling or decommissioning.

      • The plan is to have the tearout done by next week.
      • Lay a window fan down on top of the chimney during tearout. It will pull out 90% of the fine dust that would otherwise permeate every inch of the house — plus, you don't have to breathe it.
      • Remove and store them till you are done with tearout and rough framing.
   2. 5

      A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually…

      A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually along a perforated line.

      • In the back of the book there are tearout sheets that can be used to give additional data to the publishers for the correction or expansion of this book.
      • You may also use this tearout sheet to order QMS materials referred to in the manual .
      • This issue's tearout is about how long your clients should keep federal income tax return records.
   3. 6

      A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and…

      A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and high-energy rhythms.

      • He makes a variety of different styles, although he typically leans towards darker genres such as Minatory and Tearout.
   4. 7

      A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its…

      A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.

The neighborhood

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