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Meaning Of Shear
v. t.
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a
like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
v. t.
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
v. t.
To reap, as grain.
v. t.
Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
v. t.
To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear,
n., 4.
v. t.
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but
formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
v. t.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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 tangential stress.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To deviate. See Sheer.
v. i.
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.