Deform in a sentence

The low pressure fuel pump may have an impeller that could deform over time and affect the fuel pump housing.

Traditional memory foam mattresses react and deform in response to heat, softening the foam in areas where you are lying, allowing you to sink into the foam.

Your first section of stories are about exile, the pain of exile, the way that these outside forces intrude to distort, deform, destroy lives.

For the first type, only the creases between panels of paper can deform, but the panels stay fixed.

It’s not a comic novel, by any stretch, but neglecting to mention its humor would shortchange it and deform one’s initial idea of it.

The question is, do not deform as well because they are stiffer, resulting in cellular dysfunction?

A bone/joint animation system is set up to deform the CGI model (e.

After deposition, physical processes can deform the sediment, producing a third class of secondary structures.

A major drawback to vacuum packaging, at the consumer level, is that vacuum sealing can deform contents and rob certain foods, such as cheese, of its flavor.

Because the M855 is yaw dependent it requires instability in flight to deform upon hitting the target.

For added protection, vehicles may be retrofitted with reactive armor; on impact, reactive tiles explode or deform, disrupting the normal function of the shaped charge.

However, an excessively strong magnetic field, whether alternating or constant, may mechanically deform (bend) the shadow mask, causing a permanent color distortion on the display which looks very similar to a magnetization effect.

However, due to the rigid structure of the crystalline materials, there are very few available slip systems for dislocations to move, and so they deform very slowly.

However, metallic bonding is more collective in nature than other types, and so they allow metal crystals to more easily deform, because they are composed of atoms attracted to each other, but not in any particularly-oriented ways.

I want to break Venus's ribs with a club and deform her hips.

Less expensive woks have a higher tendency to deform and misshape.

Some solvents may only swell it or deform it but not dissolve it, but some of them, like tetrahydrofuran or acetone, may damage it.

The explosion was big enough to deform the door and blow it off its hinges.

Their gravitational field would deform the horizon of the black hole, and the deformed horizon could produce different outgoing particles than the undeformed horizon.

The primary geotechnical concern in design and installation of retaining walls is that the weight of the retained material is creates lateral earth pressure behind the wall, which can cause the wall to deform or fail.