shearing
shear
noun[ U ]
uk /ʃɪər/ us /ʃɪr/
movement in the plates in the surface of the earth that causes them to change shape or break（地质学）剪力

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shear | American Dictionary

shear
verb[ T ]
us/ʃɪr/past tensesheared | past participlesheared or shornus/ʃɔrn, ʃoʊrn/

shearverb[T] (CUT)

to cut off the hair of an animal or a person:
The barber sheared Jim’s hair, just like you’d shear a sheep.
shear
noun[ U ]
us/ʃɪr/

shearnoun[U] (MOVEMENT)

earth science
movement in the plates in the surface of the earth that causes them to change shape or break

Examples of shear

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In cases of dispute, the advisory committee entrusts the larger shears to the guideline chair.
Visual thresholds for shearing motion in monkey and man.
We have also demonstrated that regions of highly sheared flows can 'confine' or create 'ghettos' in the transport properties.
Variation in integrated gray-scale value under applied shearing force.
The resulting macroscopic sheared relative dust-neutral drift motions are responsible for the generation of magnetic fields.
Finally, while we may have an expression that relates the shears to the aspect angles, we still do not have a determination of the said aspect angle.
Thus, the clear detection by incoherent scatter radars of powerful echoes that are not field aligned suggests that unexpectedly large currents and/or shears are present at times.
Three-dimensional electrostatic particle simulations are performed in order to investigate the effects of ion flow parallel to magnetic-field lines and their velocity shears on low-frequency plasma instabilities in detail.
Inference is restricted to responses to different shearing regimes, and to differences between genetic strain in these responses, because some of the covariates differ between strains.
Increasing the frequency of shearing resulted in linear changes in most fleece attributes with deviations from linear changes detected for staple fibre entanglement and fibre tip scores.
The present research documents the many advantages in fleece production and quality that arise from increasing frequency of shearing from once per year to two per year.
However, this seems harder to do and the shearing coordinates have the definite technical advantage that one only has to deal with shearing as opposed to mixing lengths and shearing.
If combined normal and shearing forces are applied to the sensing surface, the conical feelers make contact with the acrylic board and are subjected to compressive and shearing deformation.
They do, however, encompass a sufficiently broad range of the primary variables involved, that is shearing stress and relaxation time, to provide a basis for integration of (18).
In contrast, measured velocity profiles on a dense entry branch, shown in figure 16, exhibit shearing throughout the depth of the layer and little evidence of locking.
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