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🛠️ To take apart 🛠️ Easy to take apart 🛠️ Quick disassembly
field-strip

field-strip

7.5
You can take apart and put back together quickly without tools
  • adjective
  • /ˈfiːld strɪp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desmontable
  • The new rifle is a field-strip model, making it ideal for soldiers in remote locations.

Examples

  • This rifle features a field-strip design for convenience.

  • A field-strip mechanism allows technicians to maintain equipment without returning to base.

  • Engineers designed the device to be field-strip for quick repairs during missions.

  • The new model is designed to be field-strip easily.

  • The new rifle is a field-strip model, making it ideal for soldiers in remote locations.

  • Engineers designed the device to be field-strip for quick repairs during missions.

  • A field-strip mechanism allows technicians to maintain equipment without returning to base.

Antonyms

fixed
1.0

Attached firmly to something so it cannot move

Surface Forms

field-strip positive

Morphology

field-strip = field-strip (semi-transparent) = field + strip

The compound is fairly clear, but the military-maintenance sense is a specialized extension of the literal idea of stripping something in the field.

Etymology

Field-strip joins field 'in the field' and strip 'to remove parts'. So a field-strip item is made to be taken apart quickly without special tools for easy cleaning or repair in the field.