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Definition of Change of shape
1. Noun. An action that changes the shape of something.
Specialized synonyms: Contortion, Deformation, Convolution, Angulation, Bending, Elongation, Enfolding, Involution, Corrugation, Fold, Folding, Indentation, Jut, Jutting, Projection, Protrusion, Broadening, Widening, Narrowing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Change Of Shape
Literary usage of Change of shape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The resistance to a change of shape presented by a fluid, evanescent as it is
when the shape is not being changed (or vanishing when the velocity of the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"The frictional resistance against change of shape must in every solid be infinitely
small when the change of shape is made at an infinitely slow rate, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"If now the rubber be subjected to stress, the resistance at the beginning of the
strain will be due to the forced change of shape of the individual elastic ..."
4. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"Closely connected with limits of elasticity, and with imperfectness of elasticity,
is viscosity, that is to say, resistance to change of shape depending on ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"The following Communications were made: (1) On the change of shape in turgescent
pith. By Miss A. BATESON, Newnham College, and F. DARWIN, MA, ..."
6. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"... showed that the comparative areas of the bend and of the shoals sections did
not differ by more than 10 per cent. change of shape of cross-section. ..."
7. A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials: From by Isaac Todhunter (1893)
"... proportional to the velocity of change of shape, he only suggests that this
molecular friction is some function of this velocity of change of shape. ..."
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