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What (who) is Sputter - definition

EMISSION OF SURFACE ATOMS THROUGH ENERGETIC PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT

Sputter; Sputter cleaning

Sputter

·vi To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

II. Sputter ·noun Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

III. Sputter ·vi To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

IV. Sputter ·vi To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

V. Sputter ·vt To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

sputter

(sputters, sputtering, sputtered)

If something such as an engine or a flame sputters, it works or burns in an uneven way and makes a series of soft popping sounds.

The truck sputtered and stopped...

The flame sputters out.

= splutter

VERB: V, V prep/adv

sputter

v. n.

1.

Spit, spawl.

2.

Splutter, stammer.

Wikipedia

Sputtering

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. It occurs naturally in outer space, and can be an unwelcome source of wear in precision components. However, the fact that it can be made to act on extremely fine layers of material is utilised in science and industry—there, it is used to perform precise etching, carry out analytical techniques, and deposit thin film layers in the manufacture of optical coatings, semiconductor devices and nanotechnology products. It is a physical vapor deposition technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputtering

Examples of use of Sputter

1. "Someone said they heard the engine sputter," he said.

2. When Hart‘s campaign began to sputter, the Mondale machine chewed him to pieces.

3. Decades–old cars sputter along with wires poking out and monsoon waters sloshing around below the passenger seats.

4. Today these two once–brightest stars in the Republican firmament sputter along with approval ratings in the high thirties.

5. Peace talks in Nigeria between the Sudanese government and the rebel groups, now into their sixth round, sputter along.