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shear wave

shear wave noun: a wave that changes the medium through which it travels to change its shape but not its volume or density.

Noun

shear wave (plural shear waves)

  1. A wave that changes the medium through which it travels to change its shape but not its volume or density.
    Synonyms:
    S wave, secondary wave

shear wave meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Persian

shear wave in Tamil

நறுக்க அலை, வெட்டி அலை

shear wave in Arabic

shear wave
مَوْجَة S

shear wave in Persian

shear wave
موج اس

Synonyms of shear wave

Forms of shear wave

pluralshear waves

Questions about shear wave

What does shear wave mean?
Shear wave means a wave that changes the medium through which it travels to change its shape but not its volume or density.
What is shear wave in Tamil?
Shear wave in Tamil is நறுக்க அலை, வெட்டி அலை. See Shear wave meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shear wave?
Shear wave is a noun.
What is the plural of shear wave?
The plural of shear wave is shear waves.

Words near shear wave in the dictionary

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

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