0 present participle of deform --
1 to spoil the usual and true shape of something: --
These plastics deform at temperatures of over 90°C.
The past has left its deforming brand upon her and continues to sustain continuity in collective and individual experience.
However, for a moving-boundary problem such as a deforming drop, it would be necessary to take into account the time-dependent nature of the coordinate mapping.
The third aspect of the motion of this curve is that it 'slides' on the surface of the deforming torus.
When a red blood cell is placed in a straining flow, it starts deforming much like a liquid droplet.
The onset of shear-banding in a deforming elastoplastic solid has been linked to change of type of the governing partial differential equations.
It should be noted that in a rock volume deforming by a homogeneous flow with a constant vorticity, all the samples record the same vorticity.
The importance of the relatively new concept of deforming beds is stressed.
Harnessing and deforming it, to make it more serviceable, was an uphill battle.
