What does ripping mean?

Definitions for ripping
ˈrɪp ɪŋrip·ping

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rending, ripping, splittingadjective

    resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

    "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"

Wiktionary

  1. rippingadjective

    That rips, or can be removed by ripping.

  2. rippingadjective

    Excellent.

Wikipedia

  1. Ripping

    Ripping is extracting all or parts of digital content from a container. Originally, it meant to rip music out of Commodore 64 games. Later, the term was used to extract WAV or MP3 format files from digital audio CDs, but got applied as well to extract the contents of any media, including DVD and Blu-ray discs, and video game sprites. Despite the name, neither the media nor the data is damaged after extraction. Ripping is often used to shift formats, and to edit, duplicate or back up media content. A rip is the extracted content, in its destination format, along with accompanying files, such as a cue sheet or log file from the ripping software. To rip the contents out of a container is different from simply copying the whole container or a file. When creating a copy, nothing looks into the transferred file, nor checks if there is any encryption or not, and raw copy is also not aware of any file format. One can copy a DVD byte by byte via programs like the Linux dd command onto a hard disk, and play the resulting ISO file just as one would play the original DVD. To rip contents is also different from grabbing an analog signal and re-encoding it, as it was done with early day CD-ROM drives not capable of digital audio extraction (DAE). Sometimes even encoding, i.e. digitizing audio and video originally stored on analog formats, such as vinyl records is incorrectly referred to as ripping.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ripping

    of Rip

Freebase

  1. Ripping

    Ripping is the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk, typically from removable media such as compact disc or DVD, although the word refers to all forms of media. Despite the name, neither the media nor the data is damaged after extraction. Ripping is often used to shift formats, and to edit, duplicate or back up media content. Digital Audio Extraction is a more formal phrase applied to the ripping of audio CDs. A rip is the copied content, in its destination format, along with accompanying files. Ripping is distinct from simple file copying, in that the source audio or video often isn't originally formatted for ease of use in a computer file system; ripping such data usually involves reformatting it and optionally compressing it during the extraction process. The source material being ripped need not be digital; ripping can involve digitizing audio and video originally stored on analog formats, such as vinyl records.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ripping in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ripping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ripping in a Sentence

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    I believe in serious debates on serious issues. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. Maybe I shouldn't say this: I like Hillary Clinton. I respect Hillary Clinton, will the media, among others, allow us to have a civil debate on civil issues? Or is the only way you get media attention by ripping apart somebody else?

  2. Rene Umberger:

    That act of ripping out my air supply was terrifying and dangerous, and if it had occurred to someone who did not have as much experience as I did, they might well have died.

  3. Michael Cohen:

    What he didn't want is to have an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts run through his tax return and start ripping it to pieces, and then he'll end up in an audit and he'll ultimately have taxable consequences, penalties and so on.

  4. Hunter Richard:

    Donald Trump Jr. tweeted last Thursday night. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., also told Fox News ' that the congressman was looking to see what he could do to secure a signed hat for the teen. I support my president and, if you do n’t, let’s have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off, i just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me.

  5. Eugene Egan:

    You’ll go ahead and say I’m ripping off the city ’cause I got a pension.

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