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Matter remembering it has opinions about the shape you asked for.
means A change in an object's shape or size caused by an applied force or stress, without necessarily breaking it.
from From Latin deformare — 'de-' (away, down, reducing) plus 'formare' (to shape, from forma, 'form/shape'). So literally 'to shape away from' the original form. The word entered English in the 1600s mostly in this neutral, technical sense — engineers and scientists needed a word for shape-change under stress that didn't carry the moral baggage of its cousin 'deformity,' which took the darker, judgmental path through the same root.
- elastic vs plastic
- one springs back, one holds a grudge forever
- metal fatigue
- tiny repeated deformations eventually snap planes in half
- stress vs strain
- stress is the push, strain is the surrender
- topology's favorite word
- a mug and a donut differ by zero deformation