shear effect; shearing effect
Technical term in physics and engineering referring to the effect produced by shear forces.
We conducted an experiment to investigate the shear effect of this material.
Standard technical spelling using the simplified kanji せん断.
Alternate spelling using the traditional kanji 剪断; less common in modern technical writing.
Compound of せん断 (shear) and 効果 (effect). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the technical meaning.