Shear may refer to:
Textile production Animal shearing, the collection of wool from various species Sheep shearing The removal of nap during wool cloth production Scissors, a hand-operated cutting equipment
Science and technology Engineering Shear strength (soil), the shear strength of soil under loading Shear line (locksmithing), where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock Shearing (manufacturing), a metalworking process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting Shear (sheet metal), various tools to shear sheet metal Board shear, in bookbinding, a tool to cut board or paper Shear pin, in machinery, such as a plough, designed to shear (break) when a certain force is exceeded, to protect other components of the machine. Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference Shearing in computer graphics, more commonly called screen tearing Shear wall, a wall composed of braced panels to counter the effects of lateral load acting on a structure Shear forming, different from conventional metal spinning in that a reduction of the wall thickness is induced
Mathematics/astronomy Cosmic shear, an effect of distortion of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity (see also gravitational lens) Shear mapping, a particular type of mapping in linear algebra, also called transvection Shear matrix in geometry, a linear transformation shearing a space One of the optical scalars of a collection of light rays in general relativity
Solid materials Shear (geology), a form of fault in rocks Shear stress in physics, refers to a stress state that will cause shearing when it exceeds a material's shear strength Shearing (physics), the deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another Shear strength
Wind/fluids Simple shear, a special case of deformation of a fluid Shear (fluid), in fluid dynamics, refers to the shear stresses and responses thereto in fluids Shear rate, a gradient of velocity in a flowing material Shear line (meteorology), an area of wind shear Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere
Surnames Shear (surname) Shearing (surname)
Other Shear (character), a Marvel Comics superhero
See also
Shears (disambiguation) Shearer (disambiguation) Sheer (disambiguation) Sher (disambiguation) Shere, Surrey, England Scissors (disambiguation)