spalled; spalling; spalls
: to break up or reduce by or as if by chipping with a hammer
Examples of spall in a Sentence
Noun
found a variety of uses for the spalls left over from their stonecutting operations
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Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
The curtains are made up of overlapping, three-quarter inch plates of AR500 steel encased in a layer of ballistic nylon that captures spall, the shards of metal that break off from a colliding bullet.
—Dan Robitzski, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
The reports noted that numerous repairs had been made to cracks and spalls in the spillway.
—Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2017
Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2019
When spalling occurs on the exterior of the concrete, material can break off and fall onto the road below.
—Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
Where the rocks had spalled, the ledges were covered in moss and spiked with twisted red arbutus trees.
—New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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Noun
They are made up of huge amounts of matter squeezed into a spall space, which creates a gravitational field so powerful that the black hole pulls everything around it inside, including light.
—Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
The curtains are made up of overlapping, three-quarter inch plates of AR500 steel encased in a layer of ballistic nylon that captures spall, the shards of metal that break off from a colliding bullet.
—Dan Robitzski, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
The reports noted that numerous repairs had been made to cracks and spalls in the spillway.
—Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2017
Verb
Even better, the shards of glass from the inner lamination wind up stuck to the membrane, keeping them from spalling away from the windshield at a high velocity, causing great havoc.
—Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2019
When spalling occurs on the exterior of the concrete, material can break off and fall onto the road below.
—Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 22 June 2018
Where the rocks had spalled, the ledges were covered in moss and spiked with twisted red arbutus trees.
—New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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“Spall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spall. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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