CHANGE OF SHAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change of shape mean? 

• CHANGE OF SHAPE (noun)
  The noun CHANGE OF SHAPE has 1 sense:

1. an action that changes the shape of something

  Familiarity information: CHANGE OF SHAPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE OF SHAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An action that changes the shape of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("change of shape" is a kind of...):

change (the action of changing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "change of shape"):

contortion; deformation (the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself))

convolution (the action of coiling or twisting or winding together)

angulation (the act of making angulate (having corners))

bending (the act of bending something)

elongation (the act of lengthening something)

enfolding; involution (the action of enfolding something)

corrugation (the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves)

fold; folding (the act of folding)

indentation (the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions)

jut; jutting; projection; protrusion (the act of projecting out from something)

broadening; widening (the act of making something wider)

narrowing (the act of making something narrower)