different between spall vs spallation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English spalle (“a chip”) (first documented in 1440), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Middle English verb spald (“to split”) (c.1400), from Middle Low German spalden, cognate with Old High German spaltan (“to split”).

Alternative forms

• spawl

Noun

spall (plural spalls)

1. A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 13:

     My father knew Bert Le Feuvre, the foreman of Griffith's yard, and there was a little heap of spawls waiting ready every night in summer after school for me to crack.

Translations

Verb

spall (third-person singular simple present spalls, present participle spalling, simple past and past participle spalled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.
   • 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining […]

     Cobbed Ore is the ?palled which is broke out of the ?olid large ?tones with ?ledges
2. (transitive) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.

Related terms

• spaller
• spalling

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian spalla.

Noun

spall (plural spalls)

1. (obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles [...].

Anagrams

• palls

English

Etymology

From spall +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??le??(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sp??le???n/, /sp??le???n/

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

Derived terms

• spallogenic

Related terms

• spall

Translations

Anagrams

• altiplanos

French

Etymology

From English spallation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.la.sj??/

Noun

spallation f (plural spallations)

1. (nuclear physics) spallation

Further reading

• “spallation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).