spaghettification

Noun

spaghettification (uncountable)

1. The gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes, usually near a black hole.
   • Spaghettification was due to gravity intensifying, metre by metre, in the approach to a black hole.1977, Nigel Calder, “Starcrusher”, in The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 143
   • But in the approach to a black hole the effect is far stronger: the astronaut’s body is stretched out on a gravitational rack. Before he comes near the event horizon, his body will be pulled out beyond the limits that flesh and blood can stand and he will suffer the excruciating death of...1981, Nigel Henbest, “Black Holes”, in Mysteries of the Universe, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, →ISBN, page 140, column 1

   Synonyms:

   noodle effect

2. (rare) The act of turning something into long, thin strands like spaghetti.
   • We'll have to make do with twisting the nose and nears,^([sic – meaning ears?']) with removal of the tongue and extraction of the teeth, laceration of the posterior, hacking to pieces of the spinal marrow and the partial or total spaghettification of the brain through the heels.1965, Alfred Jarry, “Ubu Cocu (Ubu Cuckolded)”, in Cyril Connolly, transl., edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor, Selected Works of Alfred Jarry, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →OCLC, act...
   • We have suffered a partial or total / spaghettification of the brain. / We have kept the nails / in Christ's feet, revised the Aryan Paragraph, / and mistaken semantic discharge / for the basic language of God.1979, Cornell Review, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →OCLC, page 61
3. (3D printing) Failure in which extruded filament forms tangled, stringy, or chaotic strands instead of the intended structure, often due to adhesion issues, improper settings, or printer malfunction.