Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 38 compound words that contain stresses. The most common are listed below. Open stresses in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- de-stressesthird-person singular simple present indicative of de-stress: To reduce the physical stresses in (a material).
- engineering stressesplural of engineering stress: In a tensile test, the ratio of the applied force to the initial cross-sectional area of the tensile specimen (ignoring the gradual decrease in area resulting from Poisson's ratio).
- flow stressesplural of flow stress: The instantaneous value of stress (pressure) required to continue plastically deforming a material past the yield point, typically denoted as Y_f or σ_f.
- primary stressesplural of primary stress: The stronger of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.
- residual stressesplural of residual stress: A stress that remains in a solid material after the original cause of the stress has been removed.
- secondary stressesplural of secondary stress: The weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.
- shear stressesplural of shear stress: The component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.
- stresses outthird-person singular simple present indicative of stress out: To become stressed.
- true stressesplural of true stress: The instantaneous stress caused by a load acting on a unit cross section
- yield stressesplural of yield stress: The amount of strain corresponding to the yield point; the minimum pressure required to cause a material to deform plastically (irreversibly).
- oxidative stressesplural of oxidative stress: damage caused to cells or tissue by reactive oxygen species
- genotoxic stressesplural of genotoxic stress: Damage to the genome of an organism as the result of a genotoxin.
- Peierls stressesplural of Peierls stress: The force needed to move a dislocation within a plane of atoms in the unit cell.
- nitrosative stressesplural of nitrosative stress: The reaction of body tissues to nitric oxide, nitrous oxide or similar species at levels greater than can be neutralized.
- stresses of weatherplural of stress of weather: Violent winds, especially those unfavourable to vessels at sea.
Compound words 38
- seamstressesplural of seamstress: A woman who sews clothes professionally.
- backstressesplural of backstress: A long-range internal stress.
- cryostressesplural of cryostress: stress caused by low temperatures
- eigenstressesplural of eigenstress: A stress produced by an eigenstrain
- fuckstressesplural of fuckstress: A female fucker, especially a woman who is an eager and energetic participant in sexual intercourse.
- gangstressesplural of gangstress: A female gangster.
- genostressesplural of genostress: genetic stress
- geostressesplural of geostress: geologic stress
- huckstressesplural of huckstress: A female huckster.
- hyperstressesplural of hyperstress: Excessive stress.