(engineering) 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).

The force needed to move a dislocation within a plane of atoms in the unit cell.

plural of Peierls stress

(phonetics) A written mark to show which part of a word should be stressed

plural of stress function

(physics) A function that finds a more tractable method for the elastic equations that describe the deformation of an elastic body subject only to boundary surface forces.

plural of stress ball

plural of residual stress

(physics) A stress that remains in a solid material after the original cause of the stress has been removed.

(linguistics) Of a language: such that syllables may last different amounts of time, but there is perceived to be a fairly constant amount of time between consecutive stressed syllables.