NASA officials concluded the debris was likely a plastic separator, or shim, from the shuttle's ceramic tile heat shield.
Source: tatoeba (10806923)
Shim
/ʃɪm/
Synonyms for "shim" (32 found)
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Though she was not on that team, Shim said through a translator, she certainly remembered the heartbreak of her countrywomen.
Source: tatoeba (11502529)
The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.
Source: wiktionary
Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.
Source: wiktionary
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