Meanings
verbtape out (third-person singular simple present tapes out, present participle taping out, simple past and past participle taped out)
present singular third person tapes out · participle present taping out · participle past taped out · past taped out
- engineeringTo measure out (a piece of land) so as to be able to accurately fire upon it.
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.
1918, Philip Gibbs, From Bapaume to Passchendaele, on the western front, 1917, G.H. Doran Co., page 25 - businessTo complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication.
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