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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A wave in an elastic medium which causes an element of the medium to change its shape without a change of volume. Mathematically, a shear wave is one whose velocity field has zero divergence. Also called rotational wave.A shear plane wave in an isotropic medium is called a transverse wave. (references) |
Geological | See S wave. (references) |
Mining | See:S wave. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SHEAR WAVE |
| Specialty definitions using "SHEAR WAVE": rotational wave ♦ S wave. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shear wave | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-r-s-v-w" | |
-2 letters: heavers, reshave, seaware, weavers, wharves, whereas, wherves. | |
-3 letters: averse, haeres, havers, hawser, hearse, heaver, heaves, hewers, reaves, rewash, shaver, sheave, shewer, swerve, washer, wavers, weaver, weaves, wharve, wheres, wherve. | |
-4 letters: areae, areas, avers, aware, awash, eaves, erase, ewers, haars, hares, haver, haves, hawse, hears, heave, heres, hewer, raves, reave, resaw, resew, rheas, saree. | |
-5 letters: aahs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-r-s-v-w" | |
+2 letters: heavenwards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 48 45 41 52      57 41 56 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S H E A R   W A V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0048 0045 0041 0052      0057 0041 0056 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5342393552257355639 |
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