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runout

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Something that has been run out.
    The landslide had a long runout.
  2. noun The method of getting out (dismissed from play) in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
  3. noun A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
  4. noun Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
  5. noun The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
  6. noun A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
  7. noun Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the specific amount of deviation.
    We determined that inaccuracy was caused by a large amount of tool runout.
  8. noun A sudden tension between two coupled railcars when the fore one is moving faster than the hinder one.

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