deformed
Example Sentences
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When many nucleons participate in these coordinated transitions, the nucleus becomes strongly deformed.
From Science Daily
More than a dozen countries took part in the weeks-long search for the vessel, which was eventually located a year later by a private British marine robotics firm, its hull dented and deformed.
From Barron's
There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.
The medical examiner retrieved a deformed metal projectile.
When the metal is deformed, dislocations twist and shift, nudging nearby atoms into preferred positions.
From Science Daily
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