Shear

character in Marvel comics

Shear may refer to: ==Textile production== Animal shearing, the collection of wool from various species Sheep shearing The removal of nap during wool cloth production Scissors, a hand-operated cutting equipment ==Science and technology== ===Engineering=== Shear strength (soil), the shear strength of soil under loading Shear line (locksmithing), where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock Shearing (manufacturing), a metalworking process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting Shear (sheet metal), various tools to shear sheet metal Board shear, in bookbinding, a tool to cut board or paper Shear pin, in machinery, such as a plough, designed to shear (break) when a certain force is exceeded, to protect other components of the machine. Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference Shearing in computer graphics, more commonly called screen tearing Shear wall, a wall composed of braced panels to counter the effects of lateral load acting on a structure Shear forming, different from conventional metal spinning in that a reduction of the wall thickness is induced ===Mathematics/astronomy=== Cosmic shear, an effect of distortion of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity (see also gravitational lens) Shear mapping, a particular type of mapping in linear algebra, also called transvection Shear matrix in geometry, a linear transformation shearing a space One of the optical scalars of a collection of light rays in general relativity ===Solid materials=== Shear (geology), a form of fault in rocks Shear stress in physics, refers to a stress state that will cause shearing when it exceeds a material's shear strength Shearing (physics), the deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another Shear strength ===Wind/fluids=== Simple shear, a special case of deformation of a fluid Shear (fluid), in fluid dynamics, refers to the shear stresses and responses thereto in fluids Shear rate, a gradient of velocity in a flowing material Shear line (meteorology), an area of wind shear Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere ==Surnames== Shear (surname) Shearing (surname) ==Other== Shear (character), a Marvel Comics superhero ==See also== Shears (disambiguation) Shearer (disambiguation) Sheer (disambiguation) Sher (disambiguation) Shere, Surrey, England Scissors (disambiguation)

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