tearouts

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.

   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
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
4. The demolition phase of remodeling or decommissioning.
   • The plan is to have the tearout done by next week.
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
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)

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