Usually means: Nuclear reaction ejecting particles from nuclei.
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  1. spallation: Merriam-Webster
  2. spallation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spallation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spallation: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. spallation: Wiktionary
  8. spallation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spallation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. spallation: Dictionary.com
  11. Spallation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. spallation: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. Spallation: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spallation)

noun:  (engineering, materials science) Fragmentation due to stress or impact, or any pattern of surface damage created thereby.
noun:  (nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a nucleus fragments into many nucleons.

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