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Raresputtering
The correct spelling is sputtering.
How to pronounce sputtering
verb
Say it like: Spu-tte-rin-g
The correct spelling is sputtering. To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
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Meanings
verb
- 1.To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- 2.To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
- 3.To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- 4.To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
- 5.To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
noun
- 1.A noise that sputters.
- 2.The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.
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