: to cause (something, such as a rock mass) to move along the plane of contact. : an action or stress resulting from applied forces that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of a …

SHEAR definition: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.

verb (used with object) sheared, sheared, shorn, shearing. to cut (something). to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument. to shear wool from sheep. to cut or clip the …

Look up shear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shear pin, in machinery, such as a plough, designed to shear (break) when a certain force is exceeded, to protect other components of …

Shear refers to the act of cutting something, especially wool from sheep, or to the stress in structural elements causing layers to slide against each other. Sheer, on the other hand, …

Shear is the movement of one surface of a substance over another parallel surface. Viscosity is related to the rate of shear in a fluid. Longitudinal shear is a movement of one joint face in a …

Jun 27, 2025 · shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared) (intransitive, transitive) To …

Shear definition: To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.

SHEAR meaning: 1 : to cut the hair, wool, etc., off (an animal); 2 : to cut off (an animal's hair, wool, etc.) often + off

A shear is a cutting implement that looks like a long pair of scissors. Also like scissors, this form of the noun is usually plural. You can cut metal, prune a tree, or cut up a chicken with shears. In …