Deformation
noun
The action or process of changing shape or distorting, especially through pressure or heat.
The car sustained severe deformation after the collision
noun
A change in the shape or structure of an organ or part of the body due to an external force.
A severe deformation of the spine can lead to serious problems.
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Academic
noun
A change in the shape or form of a function, a graph, or a geometric figure, usually by stretching or shifting.
In mathematics, a deformation is used to study the properties of a figure.
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A change in the shape or dimension of a physical body or material due to mechanical stress, heat, or chemical reaction.
Plastic deformation occurs when materials are stretched beyond their elastic limit.
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Technical
noun
The action of making something false or wrong.
His deformation of the truth landed him in court
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The action or process of changing shape or distorting, especially through pressure or heat.
The car sustained severe deformation after the collision
noun
A change in the shape or structure of an organ or part of the body due to an external force.
A severe deformation of the spine can lead to serious problems.
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Formal
Academic
noun
A change in the shape or form of a function, a graph, or a geometric figure, usually by stretching or shifting.
In mathematics, a deformation is used to study the properties of a figure.
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Formal
Academic
noun
A change in the shape or dimension of a physical body or material due to mechanical stress, heat, or chemical reaction.
Plastic deformation occurs when materials are stretched beyond their elastic limit.
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Formal
Technical
noun
The action of making something false or wrong.
His deformation of the truth landed him in court
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Formal
Legal
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Force
Refers to actual changes in shape because something physical happened to it.
The toy's deformation was clear after being crushed by a heavy box.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Impact
The term often implies a visible change that might be shocking or noticeable.
He examined the deformation of the metal bars, bent outward from the force of the impact.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Force
Refers to actual changes in shape because something physical happened to it.
The toy's deformation was clear after being crushed by a heavy box.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Impact
The term often implies a visible change that might be shocking or noticeable.
He examined the deformation of the metal bars, bent outward from the force of the impact.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Force
Refers to actual changes in shape because something physical happened to it.
The toy's deformation was clear after being crushed by a heavy box.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Impact
The term often implies a visible change that might be shocking or noticeable.
He examined the deformation of the metal bars, bent outward from the force of the impact.
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Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...
We had one person devoted to the tongue for about nine months. He was very popular. Skin another big deal. The skin had to be absolutely accurate. He's also in an old age home, he's in a nursing home around other old people, so he had to look exactly the same as the others. So, lots of work on skin deformation, you can see in some of these cases it works,
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
They have a sophisticated eye which is the fastest visual system on the planet. They have another set of eyes on the top of their head. We have no idea what they do. They have sensors on their wing. Their wing is covered with sensors, including sensors that sense deformation of the wing.
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The incredible potential...
because we've already got them, but to make robots able to face unexpected situations in the real world, so able to go out there. And what makes a robot soft is first of all its compliant body, which is made of materials or structures that can undergo very large deformations,
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Why do buildings fall in...
and more flexible buildings, while high frequencies of motion pose more threat to structures that are shorter and stiffer. Engineers have also devised ways to abosrb shocks and limit deformation using innovative systems. Base isolation uses flexible layers
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The Perils of Downhill...
into heat via friction, or if they stop suddenly, dissipated via deformation. So energy is never destroyed. It's merely transferred into something else like kinetic energy, heat, or even the sound
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Neck Stretching PIPE...
pushes down on the shoulders and chest the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem
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Why Do These Women...
the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem masochistic to outsiders but to the
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Brass Shackles PIPE...
the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem masochistic to outsiders but to the
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Shape-shifting tech will...
and touch it and feel it to understand it in new ways. Or you can interact through gestures and direct deformations to sculpt digital clay.
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Geese Fly Together PIPE...
along the eastern seaboard deformations of Canada geese fly overhead every
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Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...
We had one person devoted to the tongue for about nine months. He was very popular. Skin another big deal. The skin had to be absolutely accurate. He's also in an old age home, he's in a nursing home around other old people, so he had to look exactly the same as the others. So, lots of work on skin deformation, you can see in some of these cases it works,
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
They have a sophisticated eye which is the fastest visual system on the planet. They have another set of eyes on the top of their head. We have no idea what they do. They have sensors on their wing. Their wing is covered with sensors, including sensors that sense deformation of the wing.
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The incredible potential...
because we've already got them, but to make robots able to face unexpected situations in the real world, so able to go out there. And what makes a robot soft is first of all its compliant body, which is made of materials or structures that can undergo very large deformations,
Video examples
Why do buildings fall in...
and more flexible buildings, while high frequencies of motion pose more threat to structures that are shorter and stiffer. Engineers have also devised ways to abosrb shocks and limit deformation using innovative systems. Base isolation uses flexible layers
Video examples
The Perils of Downhill...
into heat via friction, or if they stop suddenly, dissipated via deformation. So energy is never destroyed. It's merely transferred into something else like kinetic energy, heat, or even the sound
Video examples
Neck Stretching PIPE...
pushes down on the shoulders and chest the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem
Video examples
Why Do These Women...
the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem masochistic to outsiders but to the
Video examples
Brass Shackles PIPE...
the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem masochistic to outsiders but to the
Video examples
Shape-shifting tech will...
and touch it and feel it to understand it in new ways. Or you can interact through gestures and direct deformations to sculpt digital clay.
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Geese Fly Together PIPE...
along the eastern seaboard deformations of Canada geese fly overhead every
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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Merab Mamardashvili
Georgian Philosopher
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
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Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian Mathematician
Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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Merab Mamardashvili
Georgian Philosopher
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
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Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian Mathematician
Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.
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