Look up: shear

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   Shear
   A method of pruning in the landscape. Often in reference to hedges.
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   Shear
   The strain produced in a substance as its layers are shifted laterally over each other. In a gas/liquid interface this will produce corrugations on the liquid surface which develop until stripped off as droplets.
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   shear
   [n] - (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves 2. [n] - edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it 3. [v] - cut or cut through with shears 4. [v] - cut with shears, as of hedges
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   Shear
   The force between layers of resin as they slide against each other or the surface of the mould. The resulting friction causes some heating of the resin
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   Shear
   A shearing force is one which tends to cause one segment of a body to slide upon another, as opposed to tensile forces, which tend to elongate, or shorten, a body.
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   Shear
   Force that tends to divide an object along a plane parallel to the opposing stresses.
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   shear
   action or stress that results from applied forces and that causes or tends to cause two adjoining portions of a substance or body to slide relative to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
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   shear
   That type of force that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of the same body to slide relative to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
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   Shear
   A cutting device that cuts material through the closure of two blades. In our industry shears are normally purchased for cutting metal or plastic. Standard metal shears (the cutting edge of the upper blade is generally ground at an angle of eight degrees to the blade's edge) are capable of cutting brass up to .025' thick or aluminium up to .040' th...
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    Shear
    Action or stress resulting from applied forces that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relative to each other.
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    shear
    the load acting across a beam near its support; for a uniformly distributed load or for any other symmetrical load, the maximum shear is equal to half the total load on a simply supported beam Category: Physics • (1)To cut the fleece from a sheep; (2)To cut a nap or pile to uniform length or height; (3)To cut loose fibres or yarn from the surface of a cloth after weaving Category: V...
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    Shear
    Definition (advanced level) A transformation in which all points of an object slide parallel to a fixed line, which keeps all other straight lines straight.
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    Shear
    Shear transitive verb [ imperfect Sheared or Shore ; past participle Sheared or Shorn ; present participle & verbal noun Shearing .] [ Middle English sheren , scheren , to shear, cut, shave, Anglo-Saxon sceran , scieran , scyran ; akin to D. & German ...
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    Shear
    Shear noun [ Anglo-Saxon sceara . See Shear , transitive verb ] 1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears . « On his head came razor none, nor shear .» Chaucer. « Short of the wool, and naked from the shear .» Dryden. 2. ...
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    Shear
    Shear intransitive verb 1. To deviate. See Sheer . 2. (Engineering) 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.
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    shear
    1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. ... It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. ... 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. 'Be ...
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    shear
    noun a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
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    shear
    noun (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; `the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram`
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    Shear
    `Shear` as a noun may refer to: *Bias (textile), in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear *Cosmic shear, an effect of distortion of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity (see also weak lensing and gravitational lens) *Shear (geology), a form of fault in rocks *Guillotine (metalwork), also called a shear, a machine used to cut sheet metal *Simple shear, a special case of defor...
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    shear
    (shēr) an applied force that tends to cause an opposite but parallel sliding motion of the planes of an object. Such motions cause tissues and blood vessels to move in such a way that blood flow may be interrupted, placing the patient at risk for pressure ulcers. An example of a shearing force is seen when a ...
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    Shear
    • (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. • (v. t.) 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 tangen...
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    shear
    (from the article `strain`) ...the acute angle BAF when the tube is twisted. The change in the right angle is, therefore, equal to angle BAC the tangent of which, by definition, ... For many fluids the tangential, or shearing, stress that causes flow is directly proportional to the rate of shear strain, or rate of deformation, ... .....
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    shear
    The distortion of a body by two oppositely directed parallel forces. The distortion consists of a sliding over one another of imaginary planes (within the body) parallel to the planes of the forces. [A.S.]
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    Shear
    To cut off sheet or bar metal between two blades.
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    Shear
    A condition or force causing two contacting parts of a material to slide past each other in opposite directions parallel to their plane of contact.
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