tape out
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tape out (third-person singular simple present tapes out, present participle taping out, simple past and past participle taped out)
- (weaponry) To measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it.
- 1918, Philip Gibbs, From Bapaume to Passchendaele, on the western front, 1917, G.H. Doran Co., page 25:
- Tracks made of wooden slabs fastened together were the only roads by which men and pack-mules could cross this quagmire, and each of these ways became taped out by the enemy's artillery, and very perilous.
- (electronics) To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication.
Derived terms
[edit]- tapeout (noun)