What does "antiplane" mean?

Being or pertaining to a special class of deformation where the displacements in the body are zero in the plane of interest but non-zero in the direction perpendicular to that plane.

Antiplane

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Adjective

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Being or pertaining to a special class of deformation where the displacements in the body are zero in the plane of interest but non-zero in the direction perpendicular to that plane. not-comparable

Etymology

From anti- + plane.

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