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v.: to dismantle or otherwise redistribute the composite parts of a whole, as with an automobile, motorcycle, or computer system, according to the respective practical or monetary value of each. n./adj.: used to denote or describe an item whose original purpose or function as a whole is no [longer] viable, but whose constituent parts retain some [individual] practical or monetary value, as with a "yard out" motorcycle (often hyphenated: "yard-out"), also called a "parts machine". Context: The parting out of automobiles, motorcycles, electronic computer systems, [industrial] and agricultural machinery, electrical appliances, medical apparatuses, nautical and aeronautical equipment and other mechanical devices and [instrumentation] is done as an economical and, incidentally, ecological means of recycling (see recycle) and reusing various components that may otherwise be more expensive or difficult to obtain. See also: part out; part it out; dismantle; parts queen, junk wagon.
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