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shear stress

shear stress noun: the component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.

Noun

shear stress (countable and uncountable, plural shear stresses)

  1. The component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.

shear stress meaning in Tamil

shear stress in Tamil

வெட்டுதகைப்பு, நறுக்குத் தகைவு, நறுக்க தகைவு, வெட்டு விசை

Forms of shear stress

pluralshear stresses

Questions about shear stress

What does shear stress mean?
Shear stress means the component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.
What is shear stress in Tamil?
Shear stress in Tamil is வெட்டுதகைப்பு, நறுக்குத் தகைவு, நறுக்க தகைவு. See Shear stress meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shear stress?
Shear stress is a noun.
What is the plural of shear stress?
The plural of shear stress is shear stresses.

Words near shear stress in the dictionary

  1. shear poles
  2. shear steel
  3. shear steels
  4. shear strength
  5. shear strengths
  6. shear stress
  7. shear stresses
  8. shear viscosities
  9. shear viscosity
  10. shear wall
  11. shear walls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shear stress (page history and authors); shear stress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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