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shear wall

shear wall is the alternative form of shearwall.

Meaning of shearwall

Noun

shearwall (plural shearwalls)

  1. An element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building
    • Lake Point Tower, world's tallest apartment building, concrete shearwall.1988 January 22, Robert B. Johnson, “Great Moments in Structural Engineering”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of shear wall

pluralshear walls

Origin of shear wall

From shear + wall.

Questions about shear wall

What is shear wall the alternative form of?
Shear wall is the alternative form of shearwall.

Words near shear wall in the dictionary

  1. shear strengths
  2. shear stress
  3. shear stresses
  4. shear viscosities
  5. shear viscosity
  6. shear wall
  7. shear walls
  8. shear wave
  9. shear waves
  10. shear zone
  11. shear-cake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shear wall (page history and authors); shearwall (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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