Spall

Definition: Spall

Spall

Noun

1. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls".

"Spall" is a common misspelling or typo for: Sepal, Shall, Small, Spell, Spill, Stall.

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A small fragment broken from the face or edge of a material (as stone, metal, concrete, glass, or a ceramic product) and having at least one featheredge. Source: European Union. (references)
	To break off chips, scales, or slabs from the surface or edge often as the result of a rapid change of temperature. . . Frost action. . . tends to cause the mortar to spall away from the joints. Source: European Union. (references)
	Pitching. . . : large stones 7 to 18 in. deep placed on edge and wedged by small stones called -- (or rolled) to form a road foundation or a revetment. . Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	The residue of a short section of a log from which shingles are manufactured. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A relatively thin, commonly curved and sharp-edged piece of rock produced by exfoliation. b. To break off in layers parallel to a surface. c. To break ore. Pieces of ore thus broken are called spalls. Alsospelled: spawl. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spall is created by transmitting a shock wave through armor to cause fragments of shrapnel to break off the other side and fly through the vulnerable side of the intended target. This spall is often very damaging and may result in a partial or complete "kill."

Spalling is an intended effect of the High explosive squash head anti-tank round and of many other munitions which may not be powerful enough to pierce the armor of a target.

More sedate spalling processes are a common form of erosion. For example, moisture freezing inside cracks in rock can cause spalling from the outer surfaces.

See anti-tank Misznay-Schardin effect

Synonym: Spall

Synonym: spawl (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Spall

Specialty definitions using "spall": spall away/to. (references)

Etymologies containing "spall": Spauld. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Innovative Materials Development & Testing: Partial Depth Spall Repair (reference) Spall Fracture (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Spall" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spall" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

The following table summarizes the usage of "spall" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Spall	Last name	200	39,173
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "spall": spall away/to. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "spall": Cross-spall.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "spall"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), Cefël (shard, sliver). (various references)

Arabic		‏شظية (fragment, ricochet, scrap, shiver, sliver, splint, splinter). (various references)

Bulgarian		Късче, Троша, Ломя. (various references)

Chinese		碎片 (shard). (various references)

Czech		Roztřídit (assort, rank, re-sort, sort, sort through, staple). (various references)

Danish		stenfyld (flake, gravel, rubble), grus (concrement, concretion, flake, gravel, rubble). (various references)

Dutch		gesteenteslag (flake, gravel, rubble), autoklaas (flake, gravel, rubble). (various references)

Farsi		ورقه ورقه کردن (Laminate), توفال (Lath, Shim, Shingle, Slat, Splint), سنگ ریزه , خرده ریز (Layout, Shard, Snippet, Tidbit), خردشدن سنگهادراثراب وهوا, باچکش تراش دادن وبشکل دراوردن . (various references)

Finnish		liuske (schist, slate), kivijätteet (flake, gravel, rubble), kivensiru (flake, gravel, rubble). (various references)

French		noyau de bordade (spalt), déchets de carrière, épaufrure (spawl), épaufrer (spall away/to), éclat de pierre, éclat (sparkle, splendour, splinter). (various references)

German		Steinsplitter (flake, gravel, rubble), Steinabfälle (flake, gravel, rubble). (various references)

Greek		σκύρα (flake, gravel, rubble), χαλίκι (gravel, grit, pebble, rubble), λιθοτρίμματα λατομείου (flake, gravel, rubble). (various references)

Hungarian		lemezes leválás, kiékelő kődarab, kőforgács, Forgács (bur, burr, chippings, flinders, paring, raspings, shavings, shiver, shivers, sliver, trimmings), felaprítás, érc összetörése. (various references)

Italian		spalt (spalt). (various references)

Korean		돌조각 (Spawled, Spawling). (various references)

Pig Latin		allspay

Portuguese		triturar (basil, bray, break, bruise, champ, crunch, crush, disintegrate, grind, lead on, mash, masticate, mill, pound, powder, scrunch, talcum, triturate), polir (basil, brighten, burnish, furbish, glass, gloss, grind, lap, make smooth, polish, refine, rub, scour, scrape, sleek, smooth, varnish), picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), pedaço (bit, cantle, casting, chip, chop, fragment, fritter, lump, morsel, piece, plat, rag, shred, slice), lascar (break, chip, cleave, scale, slash, splinter, split), lasca (chip, splint, splinter), estilhaçar-se (splinter), escacilho (flake, gravel, rubble), esboroar, desbastar (build, build from wood, chip, detruncate, hew, hew down, lop, pare, prune, select, single, thin out, trim, whittle). (various references)

Romanian		Preface În Bucatele, Preface În Aşchii, Þandãrã, Aşchie (chip, sliver, splint, splinter). (various references)

Russian		Осколок, Обтесывать (Square). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tesati (cut, hack), iver (chip), cepati se. (various references)

Spanish		Ripio, Hender (cleave, crack, gash, rend, ride, rift, Rive, saw, slit), Cascajo (broken stones, chippings, gravel, grit, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings). (various references)

Swedish		Stenflisa. (various references)

Turkish		Yonga (chip, cutting, Excelsior, rasping, shiver), Taş Parçası, Parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, splinter, split, split off), Parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), Parçacık (corpuscle, corpuscular, corpuscule, fleck, particle, shiver), Kıymık (cutting, shiver, sliver, splinter). (various references)

Ukrainian		Осколок, Обтісувати, Подрібнювати, �'ідколювати (Rive). (various references)

Vietnamese		mạnh vụn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "spall": spallable, spallation, spallations, spalled, spaller, spallers, spalling, spalls. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "spall" (pronounced spô"l)
3	-p ô" l	appall, Pol.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: palls.
	Words within the letters "a-l-l-p-s"
	-1 letter: alls, alps, laps, pall, pals, sall, salp, slap.
	-2 letters: all, alp, als, asp, lap, las, pal, pas, sal, sap, spa.
	-3 letters: al, as, la, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-l-p-s"
	+1 letter: lapels, psylla, spalls.
	+2 letters: alphyls, apollos, appalls, gallops, lapfuls, paellas, pallets, pallors, phallus, pillars, plurals, psyllas, scallop, scalpel, shallop, spalled, spaller, wallops.
	+3 letters: allspice, collapse, escallop, flapless, landslip, lapillus, lapsable, lapsible, pailfuls, pailsful, palatals, paleosol, palliest, palliums, pastille, patellas, payrolls, perillas, phallism, phallist, pillages, pinballs, pitfalls, planless, planosol, plastral, playless, playlets, playlist, plugolas, pluvials, pollacks, pollards, postally, pullmans, pushball, scallops, scalpels, sepalled, shallops, skullcap, smallpox, spadille, spallers, spalling, spillage, spillway, spinally, spirally, spirilla, spitball, splenial, spurgall.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
timothy spall	269
picture spall timothy	17
spall	12
pic spall timothy	5
photo spall timothy	4
concrete spall	4
actor spall timothy	3
spall repair	2
home spall	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spall

Definition: Spall

Spall

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Synonym: Spall

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