deformation

deform | American Dictionary

deform
verb[ I/T ]
us/dɪˈfɔrm/
to change the shape or structure, esp. by using great pressure:
Heat generated by intense pressure deforms the rock.

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Table 4 shows the comparison between undeveloped (deformed and immature) and developed (maturing and infective) eggs.
The truth of ' matter is in state s ', in other words, effectively entails the truth of ' deformed monster m exists here ' (appropriately specified).
Above the gain 8, the volume ignition happens, as seen from the highly deformed dashed parabolas for these higher gains.
The researcher spoke the names of objects present in the room, while pointing at them with his finger, and on occasion deformed their pronunciation.
In algebraic topology, homotopy is a continuous deformation of mappings; in particular, two paths are homotopic if one can be continuously deformed into the other.
Thus, the country's civic laws, institutions, and associations remain severely truncated and deformed.
Fluid-flow pathways in actively deforming sediments: the role of pre fluid pressures and volume change.
The flexed bedding indicates that the sands were partly or wholly liquidized when deformed.
Ancient systems are, as often as not, preserved in strongly deformed mountain belts.
Biotite-bearing schlieric migmatites such as sample no. 452640 are interlayered on a 20 to 100 m scale with garnet-bearing deformed augen granites.
Before achieving "genetic transplants," it learned how to enter the heart of the cellular mechanisms that it deforms.
We have yet to understand the implications of a literary movement deformed and transformed by those it most seemed to oppose.
Large gradients of electron density in this plasma deflect laser rays from their initial trajectories, thus deforming substantially the laser intensity distribution on the target.
The sheet is then subsequently deformed in such a way as to be pressed against the mould and indeed to take up its shape.
As the sphere began to sink into the fluid, it deformed the interface.
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