0 to spoil the usual and true shape of something: --
These plastics deform at temperatures of over 90°C.
1 to change the shape or structure, esp. by using great pressure: --
As the sphere began to sink into the fluid, it deformed the interface.
The sheet is then subsequently deformed in such a way as to be pressed against the mould and indeed to take up its shape.
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.
We have yet to understand the implications of a literary movement deformed and transformed by those it most seemed to oppose.
Before achieving "genetic transplants," it learned how to enter the heart of the cellular mechanisms that it deforms.
Biotite-bearing schlieric migmatites such as sample no. 452640 are interlayered on a 20 to 100 m scale with garnet-bearing deformed augen granites.
Ancient systems are, as often as not, preserved in strongly deformed mountain belts.
The flexed bedding indicates that the sands were partly or wholly liquidized when deformed.
