meaning of stress
1. Distress.
2. Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
3. The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
4. Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
5. Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
6. To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
7. To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
8. STRESS STRuctual Engineering Systems Solver. A system for structural analysis problems in Civil Engineering. STRESS was superseded by STRUDL. ["STRESS: A Users Manual", S. J. Fenves et al, MIT Press 1964]. [Sammet 1969, p. 612].
9. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note especially with regard to stress or pitch; "he put the stress on the wrong
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