spaghettification

Meanings

1. The gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes, usually near a black hole.
2. The act of turning something into long, thin strands like spaghetti.
3. Failure in which extruded filament forms tangled, stringy, or chaotic strands instead of the intended structure, often due to adhesion issues, improper settings, or printer malfunction.

Etymology

From spaghetti + -ification (suffix meaning ‘the process of becoming’ forming nouns), alluding to the appearance of a strand of spaghetti.