Rupture vs Tearing - What's the difference?
rupture | tearing |
A burst, split, or break.
* Milton
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
* E. Everett
(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
(intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
very hasty
The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
(computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
* 2003 , David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics (page 303)
(medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora
In medicine|lang=en terms the difference between rupture and tearing
is that rupture is (medicine) a break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle while tearing is (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora.As nouns the difference between rupture and tearing
is that rupture is a burst, split, or break while tearing is the act by which something is torn; a laceration or tearing can be (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora.As verbs the difference between rupture and tearing
is that rupture is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure while tearing is .As an adjective tearing is
very hasty.rupture
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
Verb
(ruptur)See also
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* * * English ergative verbs ----tearing
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- a tearing hurry
Noun
(en-noun)- Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.