runout
See also: run out
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runout (countable and uncountable, plural runouts)
- Something that has been run out.
- The landslide had a long runout.
- The freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended.
- (cricket) A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
- (skiing) A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
- (skiing) Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
- 2011 September 13, Nick Paumgarten, “Ode to Happy Endings: Celebrating the least appreciated aspect of a great run.”, in Skiing[1], archived from the original on 10 December 2011:
- If, as people often say, skiing is like sex, then the run-out that follows a great run—that breezy pole-and-glide along a logging road, stream, or moraine back to the lift, hut, truck, or bar—is the cigarette in bed.
- The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
- A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
- 1953 July 10, Hansard[2]:
- There is a lot of trouble in Petticoat Lane. In fact, the mock auction boys have muscled in to such an extent on the bomb damaged ground that there is a danger that Petticoat Lane may lose its good name by the boys coming in now with the "runouts" to make quick profits and then get out.
- (mechanical engineering) Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the specific amount of deviation.
- We determined that inaccuracy was caused by a large amount of tool runout.