SHEAR WAVE

  

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SHEAR WAVE

Specialty Definition: SHEAR WAVE

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: SHEAR WAVE

Specialty definitions using "SHEAR WAVE": rotational waveS wave. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHEAR WAVE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

shear wave

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SHEAR WAVE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SHEAR WAVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 45 41 52      57 41 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#86 &#69

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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