Shear
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Shear as a noun may refer to:
- Bias (textile), in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear
- Cosmic shear, an effect of distorition of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity (see also weak lensing and gravitational lens)
- Geological shear, a form of fault
- Guillotine (metalwork), also called a shear, a machine used to cut sheet metal
- Shear line, in lockpicking, where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock
- Shear (mathematics), a particular kind of linear mapping, also called transvections
- Shear stress in physics, refers to a stress state that will cause shearing (see verb below) when it exceeds a material's shear strength,
- Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere
Shear as a verb or shearing may refer to
- Sheep shearing, the process of removing the wool from a sheep
- Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference
- Shearing (physics), the deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another,
- Skin, specifically, the tearing and splitting of the layers
