See also: build up and build-up

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Deverbal from build up.

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buildup (countable and uncountable, plural buildups)

  1. An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.
    Snow buildup on roads makes for hazardous driving.
    There was a buildup of pressure in the boiler.
    • 1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3:
      One of the pricetags of the U.S. military buildup is a lack of health care in poorer communities.
  2. (dentistry) The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth.
    • 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 103:
      Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e).

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