Shearing

Shearing

The motion resulting from stresses that cause or tend to cause contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other.

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The variation (usually the directional derivative) of a vector field along a given direction in space. The most frequent context for this concept is wind shear.

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Cutting of the fleece of a sheep, normally done in two pieces by skilled shearers. A sheep may be said to have been either sheared or shorn, depending on dialect.

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