DEFORMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deformation mean? 

• DEFORMATION (noun)
  The noun DEFORMATION has 3 senses:

1. a change for the worse

2. alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it

3. the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

  Familiarity information: DEFORMATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFORMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A change for the worse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

deformation; distortion

Hypernyms ("deformation" is a kind of...):

damage; harm; impairment (the occurrence of a change for the worse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deformation"):

warp; warping (a moral or mental distortion)

Derivation:

deform (become misshapen)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("deformation" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deformation"):

shear ((physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves)

strain ((physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces)

Derivation:

deform (assume a different shape or form)

deform (alter the shape of (something) by stress)

deform (become misshapen)

deform (cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form)

deform (twist and press out of shape)

deform (make formless)

deformational (relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

contortion; deformation

Hypernyms ("deformation" is a kind of...):

change of shape (an action that changes the shape of something)

Derivation:

deform (cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form)

deform (twist and press out of shape)

deformational (relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure)

 Context examples 

Device problems caused by either excessive or inadequate physical force exerted on it by another object resulting in problems e.g. wear, bending, deformation, fracture, fatigue.

(Device Stress Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the comprising materials' deformation in that a device fails to open its wrapping or open/extend to a certain fashion or form i.e. balloon or lens.

(Medical Device or Device Component Failure to Unfold or Unwrap, Food and Drug Administration)

Hardness is the property of a material that enables it to resist plastic deformation, usually by penetration.

(Device Hardness Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

This is in contrast, they found, to the simple bullet-shaped deformation that occurs in narrow blood capillaries.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

The most common congenital deformation of the foot, occurring in 1 of 1,000 live births.

(Clubfoot, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike tamoxifen (which has partial agonist effects) and the aromatase inhibitors (which reduce the estrogen available to tumor cells), fulvestrant binds competitively to estrogen receptors in breast cancer cells, resulting in estrogen receptor deformation and decreased estrogen binding.

(Fulvestrant, NCI Thesaurus)

Some of the quartz sand coming from the crater had planar deformation features indicative of a violent impact; this is conclusive evidence that the depression beneath the Hiawatha Glacier is a meteorite crater, said associate professor Nicolaj Larsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, one of the authors of the study..

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

Testing the device's ability to resist deformation.

(Device Hardness Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)