0 past simple and past participle of sputter
2 If an activity sputters, it continues weakly, and does not make people feel confident about it:
In such a case, sputtered ions will mostly be trapped within the porous matrix and thus not contribute to momentum transfer.
Despite initial uneasiness on the part of legislators and labor officials, these funds began to proliferate in the 1950s as the movement for national health insurance sputtered.
Novel geometrical effects observed in debris when polymers are laser sputtered.
As the primary beam rasters on the sample surface, the signal from the sputtered ions or secondary electrons is collected to form an image.
The sputtered atoms are neutrally charged and so are unaffected by the magnetic trap.
Expectations were again high following the winter's result, but the campaign quickly and thoroughly sputtered, as several had done before.
The following season though the team sputtered to a losing record.
The plane's engine was reported to have sputtered and caught fire immediately after lifting from the end of the runway.
