Shear

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Shear may refer to:

Animal shearing, the collection of wool from various species. Sheep shearing is most common. See the article on "Wool" for other species

Engineering

Bias (textile), in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear
Shear strength (soil), the shear strength of soil under loading
Shear line (locksmithing), where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock
Shearing (manufacturing), a metalworking process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting
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 page tearing
Shear (sheet metal), various tools to shear sheet metal
Shear, tilting and undercatering
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

Shear (geology), a form of fault in rocks
Shear stress in physics, refers to a stress state that will cause shearing (see verb) when it exceeds a material's shear strength
Shearing (physics), the deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another
Shear strength, shear strength

Simple shear, a special case of deformation of a fluid
Shear (fluid), in fluid dynamics, refers to the shear stresses and responses thereto in fluids
Shear rate, a gradient of velocity in a flowing material
Shear line (meteorology), an area of wind shear
Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere

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