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Every fluid -- from Earth's atmosphere to blood pumping through the human body -- has viscosity, a quantifiable characteristic describing how the fluid will deform when it encounters some other matter.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

The ice will deform and flow where the stress is greater than 100 kilopascals, and the relative extent of that deformation is depicted by the red arrows.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The first foresees that after closure, the salt into which the repository is built will deform and flow around the drums to encase the waste.

From Nature • Jan. 12, 2016

Friction will be in the same direction as the block's motion because molecular interactions between the block and the floor will deform the block in the direction of motion.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Do not use the side edges of the shovel blade as a mattock, for this will deform the blade.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)