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shear: the load acting across a beam near its support; for a uniformly distributed load or for any other symmetrical load, the maximum shear is equal to half the total load on a simply supported beam
Category: Physics

shear: (1)To cut the fleece from a sheep; (2)To cut a nap or pile to uniform length or height; (3)To cut loose fibres or yarn from the surface of a cloth after weaving
Category: Various industries and crafts

shear: the relative displacement(termed slipping)of woody tissues following fracture as a result of shearing stress
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

shear: shear stress is the stress or the stress component tangential to the plane on which the force or forces act
Category: Iron and steel industries

sheared: a metal strip produced by shearing or cutting from a sheet or wider strip
Category: Iron and steel industries

shearing: the operation of leveling the nap on cloth is much used in the woolen and worsted trades,as well as in the case of certain cotton fabrics.
Category: Various industries and crafts

shearing: the process of cutting off gates from castings
Category: Iron and steel industries

shearing: an area of pack ice is subject to shear when the ice motion varies significantly in the direction normal to the motion, subjecting theice to rotational forces. These forces may result in phenomena similar to a flaw
Category: The cosmos

shearing: cutting up, for example, metal scrap by means of sharp tools, by which two counter-acting knives break up the materials; cf. articulated link shears, parallel shears, scrap shears
Category: Environment

shearling: tanned and dressed wool skin,bearing short wool,made from skins of sheep sheared before slaughter.
Category: Various industries and crafts

tip-sheared: The pile of a carpet consisting of loops of different heights that have been subjected,after manufacture,to a shearing process to cut the tips of the higher pile-loops.
Category: Various industries and crafts

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