tearout

Noun

tearout (countable and uncountable, plural tearouts)

1. Synonym of blowout.
   • 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.
   • 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.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

   Synonyms:

   blowout

2. (structural engineering) The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.
   • The tearout load is determined by the formula Pₑ - 2AFₓ1944, Joseph Albert Ashkouti, Alexander Klemin, Aircraft Mechanic's Pocket Manual, pages 11-16
   • Note that computation of tearout strength becomes far more complicated if there are several rows of bolts on each side of the joint.2007, John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints
3. The tearing of tissue at the position of an incision, suture, staple, pin, etc.
   • When testing the suture tearout force, Tauber and Seidel found that the tearout force was one third to one fourth of normal tissue.2012, Volker Schumpelick, Andrew N Kingsnorth, Incisional Hernia
   • 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).2012, Urs Heim, Karl M. Pfeiffer, Internal Fixation of Small Fractures, page 34
4. The demolition phase of remodeling or decommissioning.
   • The plan is to have the tearout done by next week.
   • 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.1992 November-December, Christopher Phillips, “Demolition”, in Old-House Journal, volume 20, number 6, page 30
5. A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually along a perforated line.
   • 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.1971, Sherman Alan Stewart, A Glossary of Urethane Industry Terms, page viii
   • You may also use this tearout sheet to order QMS materials referred to in the manual .1978, United States. Department of the Army, Material Supplyman: MOS 76D Skill Levels 1 and 2, pages 1-7
6. A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and high-energy rhythms.
   • He makes a variety of different styles, although he typically leans towards darker genres such as Minatory and Tearout.2024 January 17, Ann Iacobucci, “American Bass Music Download”, in ibm.software.network.director-integrator (Usenet)
7. (uncountable) A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.