creep
10
8.6
- noun
- /krip/
- Specialized
:
fluencia
- The initial deformation was followed by a more gradual tissue creep over a 30-minute period.
- creep rate
- creep in materials
- resistance to creep
Examples
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Berger has extensive experience managing equipment operating in creep and flow-assisted corrosion environments.
Academic text (2007) -
Debonds can also be initiated by creep of the matrix or matrix degradation due to elevated temperature.
Academic text (1996) -
At time one hour, the creep effects are still negligible.
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If the material is not properly cured, creep could develop.
Academic text (1995) -
We should (and do) see creep in aluminum at room temperature.
Academic text (2003) -
Other Klingersil materials provide superior to excellent load-bearing and creep-resistant properties.
Academic text (1998) -
As a hydrocarbon-based product, Apiezon N grease does not suffer from creep or carryover, which are problems associated with silicone.
Academic text (1997) -
The 1981 tax cuts indexed the brackets for inflation, thus eliminating bracket creep, but at a cost to the Treasury.
Academic text (2011) -
Tendon, being a viscoelastic material, allows for stretching, relaxation, creep (gliding), and hysteresis (a lagging effect of musculoskeletal tissue).
Academic text (2007) -
The initial deformation was followed by a more gradual creep over a 30-minute period.
Synonyms
26
4.9
To bend out of shape when heated or wet
7
5.9
A change in the shape of an object that makes it look or work worse
Slow movement inside rock or metal when heat and pressure push it
Compounds
- Literature
1
8.5
When inflation raises pay, people move into higher tax bands and pay more tax without getting richer
- Specialized
Special food given to young animals like piglets or calves that adults cannot reach
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Creep in engineering is a metaphor from old English crēopan 'to move close to the ground', because the slow change or deformation in a material happens so gradually it seems to 'creep' over time.