tearout

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.

The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.

The tearout load is determined by the formula Pₑ - 2AFₓ

Note that computation of tearout strength becomes far more complicated if there are several rows of bolts on each side of the joint.

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.

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).

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.

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.

You may also use this tearout sheet to order QMS materials referred to in the manual .