Deformation is an English word with synonyms like distortion or damage. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deformation in a sentence
Related words
Deformation meaning
- The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
- A transformation; change of shape.
Synonyms of Deformation
Using Deformation
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of deforming, or state of being deformed. | A transformation; change of shape.
- Useful related words include: distortion, damage, harm, impairment.
- In the example corpus, deformation often appears in combinations such as: deformation of, deformation and, the deformation.
Context around Deformation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deformation
- In this selection, "deformation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ground, diminishing, rideout, zone, reverses and patterns stand out and add context to how "deformation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include along this deformation zone to and and ductile deformation where rocks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deformation" sits close to words such as aesthetically, apa and aqsa, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deformation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The deformation reverses itself owing to restoring forces resulting from its deformation. (12 words)
Deformation monitoring plays a vital role in geological disaster management, transportation, and engineering maintenance. (14 words)
Continuing earthquakes, ground deformation and sulphur dioxide emissions mean additional outbreaks of lava are possible. (15 words)
This model was focused on the Central Gold Zone, characterized in historical drilling as a 75-150 m wide deformation and alteration corridor consisting of several shear zones with strong, pervasive carbonate, sericite, and fuchsite alteration. (36 words)
Discovered at the elite burial complex in Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt (ca. 3700 BC), six sheep showed evidence of deformation, adding to the history of horn modification in Africa, which has been primarily restricted to cattle. (35 words)
This differs from the events leading up to Kīlauea’s 2018 eruption, for example, when in addition to earthquakes, geodetic sensors measured dramatic changes in deformation due to the accumulation and migration of magma. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The deformation reverses itself owing to restoring forces resulting from its deformation.
At that point, earthquake and ground deformation patterns beneath the summit indicated a small intrusion of magma had occurred.
Diminishing deformation outward from the center, a marginal syncline, and upturned beds on the periphery of the basin are also suggestive of meteor craters.
The Swayze Properties are situated east of the Cote Gold project, along a splay of the Rideout Deformation Zone.
A region of rock where intense deformation has occurred due to the application of shear stress, typically deep within the Earth’s crust.
Deformation monitoring plays a vital role in geological disaster management, transportation, and engineering maintenance.
Discovered at the elite burial complex in Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt (ca. 3700 BC), six sheep showed evidence of deformation, adding to the history of horn modification in Africa, which has been primarily restricted to cattle.
Grey squirrels are known to strip bark from trees, further causing decay, deformation and even death.
In a study published December 2023, Smye and others reported “linear surface deformation features” in parts of the Permian Basin — the ground was swelling along channels that suggested pressure moving through underground faults.
The semi-brittle state, however, combines both brittle and ductile deformation, where rocks permanently change shape by “flowing” or “bending” under stress.
It ensures that there is no deformation and drop-down, as is the case with other products available in the market.
Kīlauea monitoring data over the past month showed no significant changes in seismicity, sulfur dioxide emission rates, or deformation.
The amount of force generated during the interaction between adhered antigens was then converted into nanosheet deformation information in order to successfully detect specific antigens.
The current maps are based on the assumption that most of the region’s crustal deformation is contained in large offshore earthquakes, without a significant onshore component.
The new claims cover the western extension of a deformation corridor located between the Bourlamaque intrusive and the Garden Island Fault.
This differs from the events leading up to Kīlauea’s 2018 eruption, for example, when in addition to earthquakes, geodetic sensors measured dramatic changes in deformation due to the accumulation and migration of magma.
This model was focused on the Central Gold Zone, characterized in historical drilling as a 75-150 m wide deformation and alteration corridor consisting of several shear zones with strong, pervasive carbonate, sericite, and fuchsite alteration.
Twelve grab samples were collected along this (deformation) zone to test for gold, silver, copper and zinc.
Researchers developed an artificial neural network, a type of AI, to automatically detect large deformation events, a sign that magma is moving underground.
Continuing earthquakes, ground deformation and sulphur dioxide emissions mean additional outbreaks of lava are possible.
Common combinations with deformation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- deformation of 19×
- deformation and 16×
- the deformation 10×
- deformation in 8×
- ground deformation 7×
- of deformation 7×
- deformation or 6×
- this deformation 5×
- plastic deformation 5×
- rock deformation 4×