What is "deforming"

Usage examples of "deforming".

The main features of the head are the well-protected, recessed eyes, the upper and lower mandibles, and teeth which are capable of deforming all but the strongest metal alloys.

The Protector’s hard-tipped tentacles had already wreaked havoc in the lock antechamber, tearing out sections of metal plating and deforming the underlying structure, and the lock’s inner seal was not all that thick.

The large upper and lower mandibles are capable of deforming all but the strongest metal alloys.

The earth is deforming right here, all about us, and the cave formations reflect it.

The bullets ricocheted through the gap, howling like banshees and all the more dangerous for the way they buzzsawed after deforming on the corridor wall.

His shoulder jounced the edge of the doorway, deforming the metal jamb and crumbling cinder blocks.

There will be problems of cleanliness (medieval clean room conditions), of finish, homogeneity of mixes of ingredients, labeling and packaging, of getting surfaces into decent thermal contact (electroplating gives a rough, lumpy finish which will have to be smoothed before mounting in the press—but without deforming the grooves on the other side), of waste material that needs cutting off without either deforming or dirtying the disc.

He was doing something Jim had seen done in starships in warp, but always at slower speeds: deforming the warpfield itself, broadening and flattening it forward, tightening it to the rear.