unplanned disassembly
- noun
- Jargon
:
desmontaje no planificado
- The rocket experienced a unplanned disassembly soon after liftoff, scattering debris across the launch site.
Examples
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After hours of testing, the prototype underwent an abrupt unplanned disassembly due to a design flaw.
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Engineers dubbed the catastrophic failure as an unplanned disassembly in the incident report.
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The rocket experienced an unplanned disassembly during its launch.
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Have you ever witnessed an unplanned disassembly in aerospace?
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After hours of testing, the prototype underwent an abrupt unplanned disassembly due to a design flaw.
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Engineers dubbed the catastrophic failure as an unplanned disassembly in the incident report.
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The rocket experienced a unplanned disassembly soon after liftoff, scattering debris across the launch site.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sudden event that causes great damage, loss, or failure
849
3.0
Severe damage that makes something no longer exist or cannot be fixed
79
4.4
A failure in a system or relationship that stops it working properly
75
8.5
A sudden complete failure that causes public embarrassment or big loss
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4.3
A sudden failure that makes a computer or system stop working
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6.2
Something breaks into smaller pieces and falls apart
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6.3
Complete destruction that leaves nothing left
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9.9
A sudden break or failure that makes something stop working
A joking way to say a sudden violent failure of a rocket or satellite, often an explosion
An unexpected failure of a machine that stops it working
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional from 'unplanned' (not planned) + 'disassembly' (the act of taking something apart), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer an unexpected taking-apart or breakup of a device. Although the term is technical and often used humorously to imply catastrophic failure, the sense is still predictable from the constituents and common cross-linguistically.
Etymology
The noun unplanned disassembly comes from engineers' joke: disassembly normally means taking something apart on purpose and unplanned turns that into a wild picture of a machine suddenly falling into pieces. So, people use it to describe a sudden, catastrophic 'breakdown' of a device.