A measure of the deformation remaining in a material after a force resulting in elastic deformation has been removed In other words, creep is the opposite of elastic memory; if a material has perfect elastic memory, there will be no creep
To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length
a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"
A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects
The process of compensating for the shifting position of the pages in a saddle-stitched bind Creep moves the inside pages or signatures toward the spine
In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it
The plastic flow of pipe within a system; the permanent set in metal caused by stresses at high temperatures Generally associated with a time rate of deformation