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creep

slang

1. An irritatingly unsettling, unpleasant, or contemptible person. That creep has been bothering us all night. Let's go ask the bouncer to deal with him. His comments about women were pretty disgusting. What a total creep. Back off, creep! I'm not interested in going out with you, OK?

2. One who observes, investigates, or becomes overly familiar with someone else's personal matters in an intrusive or undesirable manner. I felt like a bit of a creep looking up all his social media posts like that, but I wanted to know what he was like before going on a date with him. How many times have you looked at her profile today? I know you have a crush on her, but stop being a creep. No, no, I need to stop being a creep and sign off this stupid social media app!

creep

n. a weird person; an eerie person. Charlie is such a creep when he’s stoned.

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A lot of love and care has been put into making these little creeps a joy to play with, and there are many more to come," the developer continues.

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Mushy, Gritty: A trigger pull with inconsistent, unpredictable creep and steps.

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14 were extracted from the short-term creeps (Table 2); the remaining inputs were identical with those used in the superposition procedure.

High-density polyethylene/cycloolefin copolymer blends, part 2: nonlinear tensile creep

This project team has surveyed the electronics manufacturing industry to identify leading factors in creep corrosion and is working to understand the sensitivities of those factors.

iNEMI releases creep corrosion risk guidelines

has been used successfully to describe tensile creep in amorphous plastics arising from the glass-to-rubber relaxation process (1), (2).

Modeling nonlinear viscoelasticity in polymers for design using finite element analysis

creep. While shrinkage generates tensile stress, creep will relieve it and may prevent cracking.

Strength, shrinkage and creep of concrete in tension and compression

The blended strings have very little creep and they resist "fuzzing" far better than pure Vectran, but they are less durable and a little slower than pure Dyneema.

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Creep testing is useful in evaluating materials used in jet engines, gas turbines and other high temperature applications under load to prevent failure.

IMR KHA - Portland Earns GE S-400 Accreditation for Creep Testing

Numerous mathematical expressions and models have been proposed to describe creep behavior of polymers.

Analysis of the creep behavior of polypropylene-woodflour composites

Creep experiments were performed on a TA Instruments DMA 983 interfaced to a TA 2000 Thermal Analyst System.

High temperature thermal analysis characterization of honeycomb core

A number of empirical functions are currently being developed to accommodate the influence of physical aging on the creep rate of plastics (1, 2), where physical aging involves slow structural changes in both amorphous and semicrystalline polymers as a result of the material being quenched from the melt to form a solid that is not in structural equilibrium.