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.
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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.
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Bettina Boxall,
latimes.com,
24 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spall
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Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan, who met Modi last December, also signed up as a prospective buyer for chips made by Tata Electronics.
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Bring along a bag of your favorite chips for dipping and enjoy!
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How can a sliver of that game day vibrancy be repeated on the average weekday?
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As a destination, Italy has exploded in popularity since the pandemic and the airing of the Max hit series The White Lotus, which broadcast just a sliver of what the country can offer visitors.
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Seventy of the dogs were X-rayed on site, and many showed evidence of bullet fragments.
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Multiple fractures with missing fragments, fetlock open and disarticulated, severe soft-tissue damage.
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On director Rupert Wyatt’s Desert Warrior (2025), Mettler was the lead film editor, splinter unit director and associate producer.
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But as the season neared the winter transfer window, the expectation was for Mainoo to leave on loan rather than continue to pick up splinters on the bench.
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At Sunda New Asian, Vanilla Ice Cream & Turon Spring Roll served with premium kaluga caviar, ube rice crispy, lychee, cookie flakes, seasonal fruit, passion fruit coulis, and ube glaze.
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On the plus side, the image processing did well in spotting the cilantro flakes and string beans, creating sharp contrast lines between the green accents and the rest of the meal.
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With grit and one-liners, this American hero navigates air vents and glass shards to save the day.
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Two GB10s leverage a software technology called tensor parallelism to split, or shard, an AI model across both machines, harnessing them as a team to share the load and deliver results.
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“Spall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spall. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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