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| Domain | Definition |
Archeological | Delaminating or breaking off into chips and pieces. Spalling is often caused in archeological materials by subflorescence. (references) |
Mining | The chipping, fracturing, or fragmentation, and the upward and outward heaving, of rock caused by the action of a shock wave at a free surface orby release of pressure. Syn:exfoliation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPALLING |
| Specialty definitions using "SPALLING": jet piercing ♦ muckle hammer ♦ thermal shock resistance, thermal spalling. (references) |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spalling | 25 |
concrete spalling | 15 |
concrete repair spalling | 3 |
driveway spalling | 2 |
concrete problem spalling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPALLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | szétdarabolás (dissecting, dissection), leválás (abruption, breakaway, detachment, scaling, separation, stall, stalling, stripping), lepattogzás (crack, cracking, exfoliation, pitting), kőzetleválás, kőzetkihullás, hasogatás (smart), hasítás (cleavage, cracking, rip, ripping, scission, slash, splitting), falbedőlés, főtepergés, elhasítás, elhasadás (split), darabos válogatás. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | allingspay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: lapsing, palings, palling, sapling. | |
-2 letters: algins, aligns, lapins, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, paling, plains, signal, spinal. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, anils, aping, gains, galls, gills, glans, glial, glias, lapin, lapis, liang, ligan, linga, lings, nails, nills, nipas, pails, pains, palls, pangs, pians, pills, pinas, pings, plain, plans, slain, slang, sling, snail, spail, spall, spang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
+2 letters: collapsing, panellings, pellagrins, pleasingly, scalloping, spiralling. | |
+3 letters: escalloping, lightplanes, palletising, sailplaning, spancelling, spurgalling. | |
+4 letters: gallinippers, palynologies, palynologist, pedestalling, plasmolyzing, sleepwalking, speedballing. | |
+5 letters: palynologists, planetologies, planetologist. | |
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