shear

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves

verb

cut with shears

Shear in a sentence

The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.

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