noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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deformation of the telescope's mirror
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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B is termed the left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor, both terms having obvious origins in the definitions given above.
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Ductile substances are capable of considerable smooth, continuous deformation before they break.
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Fun-house reflections: deformations and odd angles.
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Many other sports, with a greater stress on grace and timing, require much less physical or hormonal deformation .
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Other evidence supports the idea of a lack of major deformation within plates, at least over plates composed of oceanic lithosphere.
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Skull deformation is widely known later in the Iron Age where it occurred among the Alans and Huns.
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Some continental-margin orogens show evidence of deformation attributable to contraction in the back-arc region.
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Such deformation can be minimised by linking suspension cables to tensioning cables, converting them into a series of straight lengths.