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For similarly pronounced words, see sheer
Sheer

Sheer may refer to*Sheer curation, a lightweight approach to digital curation*Sheer Islands, Nunavut, Canada*Sheer Music, a record label*Sheer is a measure of longitudinal deck curvature in naval architecture...
, Shere
Shere

Shere is a village in the Guildford of Surrey, England. It is about east of Guildford, on the A25 road. It is a small and attractive village in the traditional English sense....
, or sher
Sher

Sher can have a variety of meanings* Sher , the common word for couplet in Persian and Urdu* Sher , a form of dance in Eastern European folk music, notably Russian and Klezmer music...
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Shear as a noun may refer to:

Bias (textile)
Bias (textile)

The bias or cross-grain direction of a piece of weave Textile, usually referred to simply as "the bias" or "the cross-grain", is at 45 degrees to its Warp and weft threads....
, in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear
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
Gravitational lens

A gravitational lens is formed when the light from a very distant, bright source is "bent" around a massive object between the source object and the observer....
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Shear (geology), a form of fault in rocks
Guillotine (metalwork), also called a shear, a machine used to cut sheet metal
Simple shear
Simple shear

Simple shear is a special case of deformation of a fluid where only one component of velocity vectors has a non-zero value:And the gradient of velocity is constant and perpendicular to the velocity itself:...
, a special case of deformation of a fluid
Shear (fluid), in fluid dynamics, refers to the shear stresses and responses thereto in fluids
Shear mapping, a particular type of mapping in linear algebra, also called transvection
Shear rate
Shear rate

Shear rate is the rate at which a shear is applied....
, a gradient of velocity in a flowing material
Shear stress
Shear stress

File:Shear stress.JPGA shear stress, denoted , is defined as a stress which is applied parallel or tangent to a face of a material, as opposed to a normal stress which is applied perpendicularly....
in physics, refers to a stress state that will cause shearing (see verb) when it exceeds a material's shear strength
Shear strength (soil)
Shear strength (soil)

Shear strength in reference to soil is a term used to describe the maximum strength of soil at which point significant plasticity or yield occurs due to an applied shear stress....
, the shear strength of soil under loading
Shear line (locksmithing), where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock
Shear line (meteorology), an area of wind shear
Wind shear
Wind shear

Wind shear, sometimes referred to as windshear or wind gradient, is a difference in wind wind speed and wind direction over a relatively short distance in the Earth's atmosphere....
, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere
Shear wall
Shear wall

In structural engineering, a shear wall is a wall composed of braced panels to counter the effects of lateral load acting on a structure. Wind and seismic loads are the most common loads braced wall lines are designed to counteract....
, in structural engineering
Shear forming
Shear forming

Shear forming, also referred as shear spinning, is different from conventional metal spinning in that in this latter the area of the final component is approximately equal to that of the flat sheet metal blank and little or no reduction in the wall thickness occurs, whereas in shear forming a reduction of the wall thickness is induced...
in metal working (manufacturing), a metal spinning

Shear as a verb or shearing may refer to:

Shearing (physics)
Shearing (physics)

Shearing in continuum mechanics refers to the occurrence of a shear Strain , which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another....
, the deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another
Shearing (metalworking)
Shearing (metalworking)

Shearing is a metalworking process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. Strictly speaking, if the cutting blades are straight the process is called shearing; if the cutting blades are curved then they are shearing-type operations....
, a metalworking process
Shearing interferometer
Shearing Interferometer

The shearing interferometer is an extremely simple means to observe interference and to use this phenomenon to test the Collimated of light beams, especially from laser sources which have a coherence length which is usually a lot longer than the thickness of the shear plate so that the basic condition for interference is fulfilled....
, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference
Sheep shearing
Sheep shearing

Sheep shearing, shearing or clipping is the process by which the Wool of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a Sheep shearer....
, the process of removing the wool from a sheep
Shearing in computer graphics, more commonly called page tearing
Page tearing

Screen tearing is a phenomenon in video where a newly rendered Film frame#Video frame overlaps a previously rendered frame, creating a torn look as two parts of an object don't line up....

SHEAR as an acronym may refer to:

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is an organization that was established in 1977 to study the history of the United States in the period between 1775 and 1861....
, dealing with United States History 1775-1861