as in chip
a small flat piece separated from a whole
found a variety of uses for the spalls left over from their stonecutting operations
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Recent Examples of spall
The curtains are made up of overlapping, three-quarter inch plates of AR500 steel encased in a layer of ballistic nylon that captures spall, the shards of metal that break off from a colliding bullet.
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Dan Robitzski, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
The reports noted that numerous repairs had been made to cracks and spalls in the spillway.
—Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2017
Dan Robitzski, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
The reports noted that numerous repairs had been made to cracks and spalls in the spillway.
—Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spall
Noun
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America may have bought itself time with restrictions on chip exports, but its AI lead just shrank dramatically despite those actions.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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The skyrocketing costs associated with the AI revolution have been a boon for companies like Nvidia, Broadcom, and Marvell, which have thrived on the explosive demand for AI chips and services.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Reality check: Data center jobs still make up a sliver of U.S. employment overall.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
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Media access is meticulously controlled, leaving only slivers of time to photograph practice or conduct interviews.—
Monty Davis,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The Tacoma’s exterior plastic was melted and its front bumper reduced to fragments, but the truck’s engine bay remained largely unscathed.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Jan. 2025
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After a seven-year voyage, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule of about 120 grams of precious asteroid fragments into the Utah desert in September 2023.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Popular on Variety The tone for proceedings is set by an introductory anecdote that Ricciardi relates directly to camera, concerning a teenage masturbation mishap that left him with splinters in the head of his member.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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There was, however, the problem of splinter factions and the Banished repeatedly striking against the Sangheili and UNSC, trying to complete the work left undone by the late Covenant.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
29 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Mix together with a pair of chopsticks until all the flakes come together in a shaggy ball.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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Get the Recipe What to do with the leftovers: Heat some seasoned chickpeas in a skillet, add a few fillets of firm white fish, transfer to a low oven and bake just until the fish flakes with a fork.—
Amiel Stanek,
Bon Appétit,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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Those shards, smaller than the eye can see, were concentrated in the walls of arteries and veins of brain as well as in the brain’s immune cells.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Spall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spall. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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