spall
IPA: spˈɔɫ
noun
- A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
- (obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.
- (transitive) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
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Examples of "spall" in Sentences
- Others that seem to wear well tend to spall.
- These pieces are collectively referred to as spall.
- Kevlar spall suppression liners cover the interior spaces.
- One end of the stone is broken off, with a spall from the break.
- The neutrons that are ejected from the target are known as spall.
- The principal use of polycarbonate is to serve as a spall shield.
- Another important part of the protection concept is the spall liner.
- Thanks to the spall liner the crew sustained only negligible injuries.
- It needs spall chuking and referencing, so is still a work in progress.
- The two most common types of salt attack are efflorescence and spalling.
- The term "spall" refers to large flakes, large flake fragments, and chunks.
- When that water refreezes, it expands and exerts pressure on the walls of the pores, causing pieces to spall, or flake off.
- Commission engineers believe water seeping through joints on top of the bridge is causing the concrete along the bottom of the edge of the deck slabs to "spall," or weaken and flake,
- Bob withdrew, and a good thing too, as in seconds, maybe nanoseconds, a burst of automatic fire came hurtling his way to spall off the hood and spray randomly into the air, chewing up metallic debris, paint dust, and friction-driven sparks.
- The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car.