- Look up
stress or
stressy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Stress may
refer to:
Stress (biology), an organism's
response to a
stressor such as an environmental...
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Shear stress (often
denoted by τ, Gr****: tau) is the
component of
stress coplanar with a
material cross section. It
arises from the
shear force, the component...
- A
stressor is a
chemical or
biological agent,
environmental condition,
external stimulus or an
event seen as
causing stress to an organism. Psychologically...
- Post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) is a
mental and
behavioral disorder that
develops from
experiencing a
traumatic event, such as ****ual ****ault, warfare...
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Stresser (or booter)
services provide denial-of-service
attack as a service,
usually as a
criminal enterprise. They have
simple front ends, and accept...
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loads on a wall
element are
longitudinal stress, cir****ferential (hoop)
stress and
radial stress. The
radial stress for a thick-walled
cylinder is
equal and...
- to
define stress solely phonetically. The
stress placed on
syllables within words is
called word
stress. Some
languages have
fixed stress,
meaning that...
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Chronic stress is the
physiological or
psychological response induced by a long-term
internal or
external stressor. The
stressor,
either physically present...
- In
continuum mechanics,
stress is a
physical quantity that
describes forces present during deformation. For example, an
object being pulled apart, such...
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Compressive stresses are
generated in
objects when they are
subjected to
forces that push inward,
causing the
material to
shorten or compress.
These stresses occur...
