tearout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tearouts
Etymology: Deverbal from tear out.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 1949, E. M. Davis, “Shaping the End Grain of Redwood for Core Stock”, in United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, editor, Reports, page 11:
text: Tearout can also occur below the final depth of cut.
ref: 2002, Gary Rogowski, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery, page 21:
text: This slot is a hot zone for tearout because it creates an unsupported surface for the material being cut.
ref: 2005, Working with Tablesaws, page 48:
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glosses: Synonym of blowout.
synonyms: word: blowout
examples: text: The tearout load is determined by the formula Pₑ - 2AFₓ
ref: 1944, Joseph Albert Ashkouti, Alexander Klemin, Aircraft Mechanic's Pocket Manual, pages 11-16:
text: Note that computation of tearout strength becomes far more complicated if there are several rows of bolts on each side of the joint.
ref: 2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints:
text: The block tearout (Figure 8) and net section fracture (Figure 9) of the brace failure modes in most cases have predicted values that are similar, which helps to explain why braces predicted to faile with block tearout of the brace frequently failed with net section facture of the brace.
ref: 2012, Federico Mazzolani, Ricardo Herrera, Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas:
text: Equation 1 and 2 are established to predict the ultimate bearing resistance of tearout failure and splitting failure, which shows satisfactory agreement with test results in Figure 9.
ref: 2019, Alphose Zingoni, Advances in Engineering Materials, Structures and Systems, page 1309:
qualifier: structural engineering
glosses: The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.
examples: text: When testing the suture tearout force, Tauber and Seidel found that the tearout force was one third to one fourth of normal tissue.
ref: 2012, Volker Schumpelick, Andrew N Kingsnorth, Incisional Hernia:
text: 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).
ref: 2012, Urs Heim, Karl M. Pfeiffer, Internal Fixation of Small Fractures, page 34:
text: Backward traction on the capsular flap forms the basis of a predictable technique for rescuing the capsulorrhexis from a radial tearout.
ref: 2022, Myron Yanoff, Jay S. Duker, Ophthalmology, page 354:
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glosses: The tearing of tissue at the position of an incision, suture, staple, pin, etc.
examples: text: The plan is to have the tearout done by next week.
text: 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.
ref: 1992 November-December, Christopher Phillips, “Demolition”, in Old-House Journal, volume 20, number 6, page 30:
text: Remove and store them till you are done with tearout and rough framing.
ref: 2005, Michael W. Litchfield, Renovation, page 164:
text: Beneficiation of contaminated material makes up a high portion of refractory recycling costs, underscoring the importance of keeping the material clean on tearout.
ref: 2012, J.P. Bennett, K.-S. Kwong, “Industrial Applications for Spent Refractory Materials”, in S. K. Sundaram, Dane R. Spearing, John D. Vienna, editor, Environmental Issues and Waste Management Technologies in the Ceramic and Nuclear Industries VIII, page 5:
glosses: The demolition phase of remodeling or decommissioning.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1971, Sherman Alan Stewart, A Glossary of Urethane Industry Terms, page viii:
text: You may also use this tearout sheet to order QMS materials referred to in the manual .
ref: 1978, United States. Department of the Army, Material Supplyman: MOS 76D Skill Levels 1 and 2, pages 1-7:
text: This issue's tearout is about how long your clients should keep federal income tax return records.
ref: 1996, The Compleat Lawyer - Volume 13, page 20:
text: Also, before you take the Essentials and Practical Application exams, use the checklists on the back of the tearout to ensure you have a firm grasp of the exam topics.
ref: 2012, Ben Conry, 31 Days Before Your CompTIA A+ Exams, page xxvii:
glosses: A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually along a perforated line.
examples: text: He makes a variety of different styles, although he typically leans towards darker genres such as Minatory and Tearout.
ref: 2024 January 17, Ann Iacobucci, “American Bass Music Download”, in ibm.software.network.director-integrator (Usenet):
glosses: A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and high-energy rhythms.
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glosses: A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.
Related terms: teardown
tearoff