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Tearing vs Breakage - What's the difference?

tearing | breakage |

As nouns the difference between tearing and breakage

is that tearing is the act by which something is torn; a laceration or tearing can be (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora while breakage is the act of breaking.

As a verb tearing

is .

As an adjective tearing

is very hasty.

tearing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • very hasty
    • a tearing hurry

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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)
    • Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora

    • Anagrams

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    breakage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of breaking.
  • Something that has been broken.
    • At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages .
  • The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.