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Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. last
  2. little
  3. first
  4. occasional
  5. slight
  6. final
  7. such
  8. sudden
  9. small
  10. faint

What Google Knows

In physics, sputtering is a phenomenon in which microscopic particles of a solid material are ejected from its surface, after the material is itself bombarded by energetic particles of a plasma or gas.

Related Definition

  1. sputter:

    n Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

    n Confused and hasty speech.

    v (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

    v (transitive, intransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.

    v (transitive, intransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

    v (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.

    v (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.


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