The word 'teardown' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb that means to take something apart or demolish a building, often for the purpose of rebuilding it. Example sentence: The city's old train station was demolished in a teardown for a new complex.
If he is right, everyone will not only carry on building up their patent arsenals, but will not hesitate to use them.GRAPHIC DETAIL: Find out how much of an Apple iPhone is actually a Samsung with our "teardown" infographic.
The design of Google's recently launched phone, the Nexus One, made by HTC of Taiwan, is almost as advanced as that of the latest iPhone.The next steps in a teardown are identifying the parts and calculating the costs of materials and assembly.
Apple has the most creative and dense designs, says Andrew Rassweiler, who heads iSuppli's teardown service.
After two shows daily and the teardown, which took place at night, the wagons and teams followed flares to the train, where they rolled back onto the flatcars to disappear into the night and begin the process again the next day in another town.
They published their teardown last week, but have revisited their findings in the wake of the reports that the phone is waterproof — and found that Apple seems to have added extra seals to parts of the handset, apparently to keep it waterproof.
In 2003, Lawford — divorcing, diagnosed with hepatitis C — was living in what he called "a teardown on the West Side of L.A. that my cousin owned and was letting me squat in until I put my life back together".
The "teardown," once considered a California curiosity, is now a familiar sight in other places, such as the Hamptons and the North Shore of Long Island.
Allan Cramer, the lawyer who had been assigned by the court to run the auction, told me that he expected it to sell for more than $3.9 million, likely to a builder looking for a teardown.
At the time of the purchase, there was already a fairly impressive house on the property, which the Spellings decided was what is known locally as a teardown.
I think of this transaction every time somebody does a "teardown analysis" of an iPhone, a Kindle Fire or some other hot new product.
"Everything on the lower end of the scale was either a total teardown, which would make a mortgage impossible, or in an undesirable area," said Mr. Maplestone, 34, a video editor based in Brooklyn.
