Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strain

Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.

A surname.

plural of Strain

A horizontal truss joining the queen posts in rafters.

plural of straining beam

(architecture) A short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters and keep them from slipping.

plural of straining piece

(chemistry) In medium-sized ring compounds, the strain due to repulsive interactions between substituents attached to non-adjacent ring atoms.

A layer of silicon atoms deposited onto a substrate of silicon germanium constrained to be wider apart than normal; this decreases resistance and increases performance when made into a chip.