Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plane along which strains of compression in the earth's crust are eased by shearing; a shearing-plane.
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Examples
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Formerly the attachment of two or three tractors was all that was necessary to insure immobility, and thus vulnerability; but with the Velantian development of a shear-plane to cut tractor beams, a new technique became necessary.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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And again the Nevian shear-plane of force slashed at the
Triplanetary 1927
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