deformation

[ dee-fawr-mey-shuhn, def-er- ]

noun

1. the act of deforming; deform; distortion; disfigurement.
2. the result of deforming; deform; change of form, especially for the worse.
3. an altered form.
4. Geology, Mechanics. a change in the shape or dimensions of a body, resulting from stress; strain.

Other Words From

• defor·mation·al adjective
• nonde·for·mation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of deformation¹

1400–50; late Middle English deformacioun < Latin dēfōrmātiōn- (stem of dēfōrmātiō ), equivalent to dēfōrmāt ( us ) (past participle of dēfōrmāre; deform ¹ ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

The features it spotted have been analyzed before, but the new study uses a new computer model that can recognize surface deformations indicating large block structures in the lithosphere.

From MIT Technology Review

Using design software, it re-creates all car makes and models that its AI needs to recognize and then renders them with different colors, damages, and deformations under different lighting conditions, against different backgrounds.

From MIT Technology Review

Hipwell’s group recently developed a computer model that accounts for the effects of electroadhesion, moisture and the deformation of skin pressing against glass.

From Science News

Adhesive proteins enable cells to attach to one another and to sense mechanical forces and deformations.

From Quanta Magazine

The team also found no other correlations between subsequent Steamboat eruptions and seismic activity, land deformation or thermal emissions.

From Science News

A slow, surreal tide of deformation has appeared throughout the city.

From The Daily Beast

The title—The Great Deformation—and tale of the decline you describe has an Old Testament-prophet quality to it.

From The Daily Beast

Its structures embrace nearly every known type of deformation.

From Project Gutenberg

After the initial location of the folds along these lines, compression and deformation continued.

From Project Gutenberg

Therefore the presence of flat heads (artificial deformation being excluded) in equatorial Venezuela is not surprising.

From Project Gutenberg

The unital deformation produced by the stress is called the strain, for example, compression per unit of volume.

From Project Gutenberg

Now when we say that the Euclidean motions are the true motions without deformation, what do we mean?

From Project Gutenberg

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