0 present participle of deform
1 to spoil the usual and true shape of something:
These plastics deform at temperatures of over 90°C.
Instead of mechanically deforming the beads, they allowed them to settle onto the glass, and to deform as the receptors and ligands bound.
Fluid-flow pathways in actively deforming sediments: the role of pre fluid pressures and volume change.
Large gradients of electron density in this plasma deflect laser rays from their initial trajectories, thus deforming substantially the laser intensity distribution on the target.
A deforming aircraft leads to more realistic lift and drag and, particularly in the design of large aircrafts, has to be taken into account.
As the cell starts deforming, the magnitude of the membrane tension increases all around the contour of the cell.
Increasing viscosity ratio also increases drop deformation since a viscosity contrast across the interface enhances the deforming viscous stresses in the suspending fluid.
Harnessing and deforming it, to make it more serviceable, was an uphill battle.
The importance of the relatively new concept of deforming beds is stressed.
