spallation

See also: Spallation

English

WOTD – 6 April 2010, 6 April 2011

English Wikipedia has an article on:

spallation

Wikipedia

Etymology

From spall +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /spəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /spɔːleɪʃən/, /spɑːleɪʃən/

Noun

spallation (countable and uncountable, plural spallations)

1. (engineering, materials science) Fragmentation due to stress or impact, or any pattern of surface damage created thereby.

   Synonyms: spalling, spall

2. (nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a nucleus fragments into many nucleons.

Derived terms

• spallogenic

Translations

physics: nuclear reaction in which a nucleus fragments into many nucleons

Finnish: hajoaminen (fi) French: spallation (fr) Italian: spallazione f Norwegian: spallasjon m Polish: spalacja f, kruszenie (pl) n Russian: скалывание (ru) (skalyvanije) Spanish: espalación

fragmentation due to stress or impact

Finnish: pirstaloituminen, sirpaloituminen, hajoaminen (fi) French: éclatement (fr), fragmentation (fr), pulvérisation (fr), explosion (fr), atomisation (fr) Polish: rozbicie (pl) Russian: скалывание (ru) n (skalyvanije), отслаивание (ru) n (otslaivanije) Spanish: estallido (es), fragmentación, astillado (es), explosión (es), reventón (es)

Anagrams

• altiplanos

French

Etymology

From English spallation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

spallation f (plural spallations)

1. (nuclear physics) spallation

Further reading

• “spallation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.