spall

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There a picture of glass spall in the cockpit and it's not unusual for ballistics glass to spall when hit by a projectile.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of spall gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

(countable) A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.

verb

(ambitransitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spall.

noun

A surname.

noun

(countable) A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.

verb

(ambitransitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.

verb

(transitive) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.

Example sentences

There a picture of glass spall in the cockpit and it's not unusual for ballistics glass to spall when hit by a projectile.

Concrete piers get concrete cancer from the rebar and spall like crazy pretty quickly.

Here, high energy protons shatter (spall) mercury nuclei, producing fragments that can include gold.

Portland will be damaged over time by the 120° temperature and may spall explosively, causing injury, particularly if you embed nichrome heating elements in it.

These are kinetic projectiles, spall lining doesn't do anything against those.

I didn't see any mention of precautions relating to vinyl spall/dust produced by these lathes.

That doesn't quite dovetail with the story I've heard about them shooting the elephant's foot with a gun to spall off a sample.

And yet on another occasion, a player submitted a report on the T-90 missing it's spall liners, and they were added by developers with the only source provided being a youtube video.

Practically this makes it unusable at a public range with other shooters in adjacent lanes because you have a lot of gunshots and other projectiles and spall wizzing around at all times creating a mass of false or irrelevant data.

Quote examples

The "socialism" thing is just spall from decades of identity politics.

"Spall" and damage fragments would just magically not trigger the ammo cookoff, specifically on some Russian tanks.

- Russia's official excuse of a "bird strike" didn't make sense, since there was spall marks on the fuselage that do not originate from turbine failure.