At low thicknesses a cutting ( or shearing ) phenomenon is often encountered.

As such, the usurper Pepin made shearing Childeric his foremost strategic goal, correctly reasoning that the psychological impact of cutting Childeric's famed hair would be more critical in deposing the dynasty.

The 39 categories of melakhah are: ploughing earth, sowing, reaping, binding sheaves, threshing, winnowing, selecting, grinding, sifting, kneading, baking, shearing wool, washing wool, beating wool, dyeing wool, spinning, weaving, making two loops, weaving two threads, separating two threads, tying, untying, sewing stitches, tearing, trapping, slaughtering, flaying, tanning, scraping hide, marking hides, cutting hide to shape, writing two or more letters, erasing two or more letters, building, demolishing, extinguishing a fire, kindling a fire, putting the finishing touch on an object and transporting an object between the private domain and the public domain, or for a distance of 4 cubits within the public domain.

" They occlude, that is, the chewing surfaces of the teeth are so constructed that the upper and lower teeth are able to fit precisely together, cutting, crushing, grinding or shearing the food caught between.

A machine tool is a machine for shaping or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing or other forms of deformation.

However, economists use a slightly broader sense that also includes metal deformation of other types that squeeze the metal into shape without cutting off swarf, such as rolling, stamping with dies, shearing, swaging, riveting, and others.

Cutting is a compressive and shearing phenomenon, and occurs only when the total stress generated by the cutting implement exceeds the ultimate strength of the material of the object being cut.

The chelicerae of many species are surprisingly strong ; they are capable of shearing hair or feathers from vertebrate prey or carrion, and of cutting through skin and thin bones such as those of small birds.

For longer targets such as chromosomes, common approaches consist of cutting ( with restriction enzymes ) or shearing ( with mechanical forces ) large DNA fragments into shorter DNA fragments.

A professional or " gun " shearer typically removes a fleece, without badly marking or cutting the sheep, in two to three minutes depending on the size and condition of the sheep, or less than two in elite competitive shearing.

The AFC is placed in front of the powered roof supports, and the shearing action of the rotating drums cutting into the coal seam disintegrates the coal, this being loaded onto the AFC.

When shearing on an ironworker you should make sure the area is clear for the desired length of material to be cut, stands set under the material level with the blade cutting surface, and make sure the hold down and guarding is working properly.

* Die cutting ( shearing ), the general process of shearing using dies

It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the cutting removal of a coating from its substrate involves pure cohesive failure of the coating.

It can be seen that the force is characteristic of the removal process and changes abruptly from cutting to cracking to peeling removal.

Consequently, both the rake angle of the knife as well as the friction occurring between the back of the removed coating and the front of the knife will determine in large part the detailed mechanism of the cutting removal process.

The measured force, H, in cutting removal of coatings from their substrates consequently can be seen to be the sum of that force required to cut the coating, Af, that due to the bluntness of the knife, Af, and that due to the friction between the bottom of the knife and the substrate, Af, or Af.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Female genital mutilation ( FGM ), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) as " all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

It also includes hymenotomy, the removal of a hymen regarded as too thick, and gishiri cutting, a practice in which the vagina's anterior wall is cut with a knife to enlarge it.

Traditional 2-dimensional views and drawings can be created by appropriate rotation of the object and selection of hidden line removal via cutting planes.

Excision is the cutting out or removal of an organ, tissue, or other body part from the patient.

Their function is to deliver a wide cutting edge so as to kill as quickly as possible by cleanly cutting major blood vessels, and cause further trauma on removal.

: The removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: " cutting out the middleman ".

Female genital mutilation ( FGM ), also known as female genital cutting ( FGC ), female circumcision, or female genital mutilation / cutting ( FGM / C ), refers to " all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other surgery of the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.

EDM is often included in the ‘ non-traditional ’ or ‘ non-conventional ’ group of machining methods together with processes such as electrochemical machining ( ECM ), water jet cutting ( WJ, AWJ ), laser cutting and opposite to the ‘ conventional ’ group ( turning, milling, grinding, drilling and any other process whose material removal mechanism is essentially based on mechanical forces ).

In order to accommodate them, the interior decorator, Amadée Joubert, had to make alterations, including the removal of a tabernacle and cutting out four of the pilasters.

There is speculation about extending south towards Lewes ; but the removal of the road bridge just south of Sheffield Park station, the in-filling of the cutting and route under the A272 road, and housing built on the site of Newick and Chailey station makes this unlikely.

This principle is used in microwave ovens, laser cutting, and RF hair removal.

A " thyroidectomy " should not be confused with a " thyroidotomy " (" thyrotomy "), which is a cutting into (- otomy ) the thyroid, not a removal (- ectomy ) of it.

Similarly, kerbstones and borders have been removed from the plots to facilitate the seasonal cutting and removal of grass or weeds.

In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain, or " cutting out the middleman ".

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Harding introduced new equipment into the process of cheese making, including his " revolving breaker " for curd cutting, saving much manual effort.

Alternatively, Prospect Relationship Management ( PRM ) solutions offer to track customer behaviour and nurture them from first contact to sale, often cutting out the active sales process altogether.

In the spiral cutting process, the ham is firmly affixed, on the top and bottom, to a rotating base, which is gradually lowered as a blade is applied.

* Leather carving, a process of cutting and stamping to give a three-dimensional appearance

Traditional quilting is a six-step process that includes: 1 ) selecting a pattern, fabrics and batting ; 2 ) measuring and cutting fabrics to the correct size to make blocks from the pattern ; 3 ) piecing ( sewing cut pieces of fabric together using a sewing machine or by hand to make blocks ) blocks together to make a finished " top "; 4 ) layering the quilt top with batting and backing, to make a " quilt sandwich "; 5 ) quilting by hand or machine through all layers of the quilt sandwich ; and 6 ) squaring up and trimming excess batting from the edges, machine sewing the binding to the front edges of the quilt and then hand-stitching the binding to the quilt backing.

This process was more difficult, so that " throttling back ", especially when landing, was often accomplished by temporarily cutting the ignition using the blip switch.

Fabric also can be made from recycled or recovered cotton that otherwise would be thrown away during the spinning, weaving, or cutting process.

Photomontage is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs.

He moved straight toward the town of Spicheren, cutting off Prince Frederick Charles from his forward cavalry units in the process.

A variation of the process is plasma cutting, an efficient steel cutting process.

A similar process, generally called oxyfuel cutting, is used to cut metals.

Routing is a high speed process of cutting, trimming, and shaping wood, metal, plastic, and a variety of other materials.

There are ways to trim one's own hair but usually another person is enlisted to perform the process, as it is difficult to maintain symmetry while cutting hair at the back of one's head.

* Photomontage, the process and result of making a compositephotograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs

The Derby Orrery does not show mean distance, but demonstrated the relative planetary movements: all part of a process understanding contemporary cutting edge scientific thinking.

Taub had been cutting sensory ganglia that supplied nerves to the monkeys ' fingers, hands, arms, and legs — a process called " deafferentation "— so that the monkeys could not feel them ; some of the monkeys had had their entire spinal columns deafferented.

This occasionally happens to diamonds while a facet is being ground or the diamond is being sawn during the cutting process.

The first major development in diamond cutting came with the " Point Cut " during the later half of the 14th century: the Point Cut follows the natural shape of an octahedral raw diamond crystal, eliminating some waste in the cutting process.