sputtering
Engineering, Electronics. a process that uses ions of an inert gas to dislodge atoms from the surface of a crystalline material, the atoms then being electrically deposited to form an extremely thin coating on a glass, metal, plastic, or other surface.
Origin of sputtering
1Other words from sputtering
- un·sput·ter·ing, adjective
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How to use sputtering in a sentence
Diligently scanning the Pandour stragglings and sputterings round him, which are clearly on the increasing hand.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleThe next moment the boy had set a match to the rags, and they were ablaze with wild sputterings and jets of red flame.
The Watchers of the Trails | Charles G. D. RobertsHer German was the musical tongue of the Viennese, possessing none of the gutturals and sputterings.
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed | Edna FerberThe television set went dead, but there were hissings and sputterings in its interior.
Morale | Murray LeinsterBut such incidents were merely the last fitful sputterings of a lamp that was going out for want of oil.
Russia | Donald Mackenzie Wallace
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