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In english, the word is almost always used to refer to "alteration of form or shape" away from the default form or shape.
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
In 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.