teardown
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈtɪrˌdaʊn/
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desmontaje
- The folks from iFixit just finished giving the Nexus 4 the usual teardown treatment, and we get to see everything that makes this quad-core Android run.
Examples
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After removing a pair of screws and spending a few minutes prying off the rear cover, the teardown specialists found that the backplate's sparkling exterior isn't the only thing that makes it special.
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Kyle Wiens runs iFixit, a company that does high-res teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides.
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So he did the acoustic testing for it and then he also helped with the teardown when I got stuck.
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The teardown shows "some speaker-looking thing" next to the display in the front case.
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Someone will inevitably do a teardown of the R2, and we might learn some interesting stuff then.
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I have never seen a Sharp LCD show up in an Apple product teardown.
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It's back with ease, after we took a look at iFixit's iPhone 5 teardown.
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The gang at iFixit did their usual teardown and found some interesting tidbits about the device.
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We reported on the teardown of the Nexus 4 yesterday, but we didn't notice an interesting thing that was uncovered.
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The engineers conducted a thorough teardown of the device to understand its components better.
Synonyms
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6.3
Cutting an animal or plant open to study its inside parts
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4.4
The act of taking a machine or system apart
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The act of taking a machine or building apart into separate parts
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To take something apart, often a machine, so you can fix or check it
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A way of studying something by breaking it into parts
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Breaking a whole into smaller separate parts
A quick, active way of taking machines or electronics apart for recycling
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Teardown comes from tear 'to take apart' and down 'away', giving the picture of pulling something into pieces to look inside. So engineers call the careful taking apart of a device a teardown because they remove parts to study them.