Definitions
1.verbTo emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
2.verbTo speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
3.verbTo throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
4.verbTo cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
5.verbTo coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
6.nounA noise that sputters.
7.nounThe ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.