Shear

For similarly pronounced words, see sheer, Shere, or sher.

Shear as a noun may refer to:

Bias (textile), in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear
Geological shear, a form of fault
Guillotine (metalwork), also called a shear, a machine used to cut sheet metal
Shear line, in lockpicking, where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock
Shear (mathematics), a particular kind of linear mapping, also called transvections
Shear stress and shear strength, in physics, a stress state refers to deformation of a body in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another
Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere

Shear as a verb or shearing may refer to

Sheep shearing, the process of removing the wool from a sheep
Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference
Skin, specifically, the tearing and splitting of the layers

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