buildup

See also: build up and build-up

English

Alternative forms

• build-up

Etymology

Deverbal from build up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪldʌp/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

buildup (countable and uncountable, plural buildups)

1. An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.

   Snow buildup on roads makes for hazardous driving.

   There was a buildup of pressure in the boiler.

   • 1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3:

     One of the pricetags of the U.S. military buildup is a lack of health care in poorer communities.

2. (dentistry) The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth.
   • 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 103:

     Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e).

Antonyms

• teardown

Related terms

• buildout

Translations

accumulation

Finnish: kasauma, kasautuma, keräytymä, kertymä French: accumulation (fr) f, affluence (fr) f German: Ansammlung (de) f, Aufbau (de) m, Anstieg (de) m, Zunahme (de) f, schrittweise Entstehung f, allmähliche Entwicklung f, langsames Anwachsen n Romanian: acumulare (ro) f Swedish: ansamling (sv) c, ackumulation (sv) c Turkish: artış (tr), büyüme (tr), gelişme (tr), geliştirme (tr)

Anagrams

• upbuild