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I don't think so, 'deformation' can also just mean any arbitrary change of shape, and in a physics/engineering context, that's usually all it means. From webst
by marky1991 2y ago
I don't think so, 'deformation' can also just mean any arbitrary change of shape, and in a physics/engineering context, that's usually all it means.
From websters:
1. alteration of form or shape
also : the product of such alteration
2: the action of deforming : the state of being deformed
3: change for the worse
so it's just sense 1.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoIn english, the word is almost always used to refer to "alteration of form or shape" away from the default form or shape.
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- kergonath 2y agoNot really in mechanics (or geophysics). Most of the time there is no sensible default, and we talk about reference instead. But then that’s just muddying the waters. Here, "default" is utterly meaningless, for example. The long and short is that deformation means just that the shape of something changes.