Definition of DEFORMATION

Examples of deformation in a Sentence

the catastrophic deformation of the steel girders under the enormous weight of the bridge

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Apply the extra rotation and the bolt stretches to its plastic deformation region, where additional stretching of the bolt yields no additional clamping force but the bolt won't return to its original length later. — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, "How to Use a Torque Wrench to Keep Your Car from Flying Apart," 26 Feb. 2019 For instance, one randomized, controlled trial published in the BMJ in 2014 followed 84 babies between the ages of 5 months and 6 months with moderate to severe skull deformation for six months. — Korin Miller, SELF, "My Son, Like Chrissy Teigen’s, Wore a Corrective Helmet as a Baby for a Flat Spot," 4 Dec. 2018 One possibility is that liquid oxygen could have pooled in such a deformation and became solid. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "SpaceX and NASA Reach Agreement on Astronaut Safety," 20 Aug. 2018 Babies were randomly assigned to receive either helmet therapy or to just let the skull deformation take its natural course. — Korin Miller, SELF, "My Son, Like Chrissy Teigen’s, Wore a Corrective Helmet as a Baby for a Flat Spot," 4 Dec. 2018 The test measures the resistance of metal to force using the deformation or depth of indentation that occurs when a penetrator (typically a diamond cone) is pressed into the material. — Francine Maroukian, Popular Mechanics, "How To Buy Kitchen Knives Like a Pro," 24 Oct. 2018 Five sets of human remains with visible bone deformations were selected from a cemetery at the Convent of Santa Isabel, a historic site in Mexico City run by nuns of the Franciscan order from 1681 to 1861. — National Geographic, "Syphilis DNA Pulled From Colonial-Era Bones," 21 June 2018 Rather, judging by the deformation of the conical, rifled bullet, the slug went in at an angle, embedding itself sideways in the man’s upper femur and precipitating a nasty longitudinal fracture down the bone’s length. — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, "Newly Unearthed Civil War Bones Speak Silently to the Grim Aftermath of Battle," 20 June 2018 The mapping also allows a surgeon see something called brainshift — the deformations that happen in the brain from the impact of surgery — in real time. — Dominic Smith, STAT, "WATCH: Surgeons create personalized brain maps to guide safer surgeries," 1 June 2018

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