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tearing | y |

As a verb tearing

is .

As an adjective tearing

is very hasty.

As a noun tearing

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

As a letter y is

the letter y with a (l) above itself.

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

    * * * *

    y

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=x, next=z, image= (wikipedia y)

    Letter

  • The twenty-fifth letter of the .
  • See also

    (Latn-script)

    Symbol

    (Close front rounded vowel) (head)
  • Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
  • close front rounded vowel
  • Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
  • See also

    {{Letter , page=Y , NATO=Yankee , Morse=โ€“ยทโ€“โ€“ , Character=Y , Braille=? }} Image:Latin Y.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Y , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter Y.png, Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur ----