Dictionary

Explore meaning, context, and usage with an online dictionary experience optimized for multilingual workflows.

Clear

Try these words

Meaning of sputtering

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

sputtering

verb

Definitions

  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.

noun

Definitions

  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.