shear

n. १ Eng. Etc. (as, a strain resulting from applied forces that cause or tend to cause contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact) कर्तर (न.) कर्तरण (न.) cf. Stress २ Geol. (as, the sliding of a parts of a rock body past another part along a fracture) भ्रेष (पु.)