Usually means: Force per area, parallel layers.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. shear stress: Merriam-Webster
  2. shear stress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. shear stress: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shear stress: Wiktionary
  5. shear stress: Dictionary.com
  6. Shear-stress, Shear stress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. shear stress: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shear stress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. shear stress: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shear Stress: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. shear stress: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shear stress)

noun:  (physics) the component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.

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