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shear stresses
n. (shear stress English)
Usage examples of "shear stresses".
He was seeing unbearable shear stresses in twisted spacetime resolving themselves into radiant energy as the wormhole failed.
Were it not for the forcefields, the submarine would have been ripped apart by the shear stresses even before it melted and vaporized.
In other places, where the glacier flowed awkwardly around a rock outcrop, the ice was shattered to blocks and shards by the shear stresses, and was very difficult to cross.