Board shear, in bookbinding, a tool to cut board or paper
Shear pin, in machinery, such as a plough, designed to shear (break) when a certain force is exceeded, to protect other components of the machine.
Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference
Shearing in computer graphics, more commonly called screen tearing
Shear wall, a wall composed of braced panels to counter the effects of lateral load acting on a structure
Shear forming, different from conventional metal spinning in that a reduction of the wall thickness is induced
Mathematics/astronomy
Cosmic shear, an effect of distortion of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity (see also gravitational lens)
Shear mapping, a particular type of mapping in linear algebra, also called transvection
Shear matrix in geometry, a linear transformation shearing a space
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