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Words related to deformation
de·for·ma·tion
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creep
When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly. -
deform
If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms. -
plastic flow
deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid. -
strain
to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope. -
tension
the act of stretching or straining. -
anelasticity
the property of a substance which has a disproportionate relationship between stress and strain