shattering

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But it's hardly earth-shattering. Any mid-sized bank could do a trade like this, and often do.

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Quick take

the act of breaking something into small pieces

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noun

the act of breaking something into small pieces

adjective

seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering; "shattering rain striking the windowpanes"; "the shattering tones of the enormous carillon"; "the shattering peal of artillery"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shattering.

noun

the act of breaking something into small pieces

adjective

Example sentences

But it's hardly earth-shattering. Any mid-sized bank could do a trade like this, and often do.

None of this should be earth shattering to anybody, its always been out there in plain view. The only thing one could really disagree with is in how to react to it.

It's not earth shattering -- we spend 8 hours a day with these people, and there's bound to be some level of attraction between some of them. Not everyone thinks exactly the way you do.

People who mock Stallman for taking his shoe off and eating things he picked off his foot in the middle of a presentation are not terrified of him shattering their paradigm. They just think it's gross.

I found it interesting, although it didn't mention anything that I would consider to be earth shattering.

* It is a "boring" language in that it's not doing anything new or earth-shattering syntactically or conceptually. This ended up being a positive to me, in that I was able to ramp up extremely quickly.

Use your energy helping NGO and the local govt overcome corruption, ignorance, and backbone shattering poverty. Give no space for terrorists to operate in."

What you're seeing here is not the shattering of a dream, but of an illusion -- Google hasn't been a scrappy, idealistic startup for many years. It's a fine company, but it's a big company -- a collection of tens of thousands of people, all motivated by different hopes and dreams.

The ability to have perfect information on how users interact with your product is one the earth-shattering advantages we have as makers in the digital world. It means we can make something people want - better and faster than ever before.

A lot of different factors come into play when trying to muster the courage to go report a life-shattering incident such as rape. Guilt, fear of not being taken seriously, facing the incident once again, anguish about legal procedures, etc.

Which, admittedly, is not Earth shattering. However, this flight will also be returning 1370 kg of equipment back to Earth, including highly valuable scientific experiments and such-like.

"codes" in DNA. That HN article was the result of a press-release about something that was interesting, but certainly not earth-shattering new theory. The reason it was in Science was because they did an extremely large-scale test of a whole bunch of different codons on thousands of different gene promoters, and directly quantified the impact of rare codons.

At sufficient voltage, or at lower voltage with a sufficient defect, the ceramic will breakdown: a conduction path will form between the electrodes through the ceramic, which will heat the surrounding area, causing thermal expansion, shattering, and permanent destruction of the capacitor. The same thing happens in polymer film capacitors, except that because the material is flexible, it does not shatter, and only a small hole around the defect will be ablated away.

Reddit avoided it by shattering into postmodern everyone-gets-a-different-flavor subcommunities, but all the "frontpage-default" subcommunities then succumbed to this anyway. If you want a community, you must moderate either participation or membership.