An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.

To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

A shear deformation is one that displaces successive layers of a material transversely with respect to one another, like a crooked stack of cards. Shear is a dimensionless quantity measured by the ratio of the transverse displacement to the thickness over which it occurs.

The force tending to make two contacting parts slide upon each other in opposite directions parallel to their plane of contact.

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.

Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.

A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.

Wind shear is the description for when wind changes direction, usually vertical winds but not always.

see wind shear

A wind condition whereby the wind continualy changes, often rapidly

In painting and drawing programs, the action of slanting an object along a specific axis.

The resistance which a body offers to the passage, or to the tendency to passage, of, one section along the next consecutive section.

shear the image along the X or Y axis

A fracture or fracture zone along which there has been differential movement of the sides relative to one another, typically leading to crushing, brecciation, and subsidiary fractures.

To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

change of shape without change of volume.

a type of strain in which the shape of a material is displaced laterally with no corresponding change in volume. Click here to learn more