- Look up deform,
deformation, or
deformity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Deformation can
refer to:
Deformation (engineering),
changes in an object's...
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called cold flow) is the
tendency of a
solid material to
undergo slow
deformation while subject to
persistent mechanical stresses. It can
occur as a result...
- In engineering,
deformation (the
change in size or
shape of an object) may be
elastic or plastic. If the
deformation is negligible, the
object is said...
- In volcanology,
deformation refers to the
change in the
shape of a
volcano or the
surrounding landscape due to the
movement of magma. This can be in the...
- In mathematics, a
deformation ring is a ring that
controls liftings of a
representation of a
Galois group from a
finite field to a
local field. In particular...
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Artificial cranial deformation Artificial cranial deformation or modification, head flattening, or head
binding is a form of body
alteration in
which the...
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strain theory—also
called large strain theory, or
large deformation theory—deals with
deformations in
which strains and/or
rotations are
large enough to...
- In
physics and
continuum mechanics,
deformation is the
change in the
shape or size of an object. It has
dimension of
length with SI unit of
metre (m)...
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plasticity (also
known as
plastic deformation) is the
ability of a
solid material to
undergo permanent deformation, a non-reversible
change of
shape in...
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Déformation professionnelle (French: [defɔʁmasjɔ̃ pʁɔfɛsjɔnɛl],
professional deformation or job conditioning) is a
tendency to look at
things from the...
