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Strain gauge — Typical foil strain gauge. The gauge is far more sensitive to strain in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction. The markings outside the active area help to align the gauge during installation. A strain gauge (also strain gage)… … Wikipedia
strain — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 severe demand on strength, resources, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, heavy, real, severe, terrible, tremendous ▪ … Collocations dictionary
strain — 1. A population of homogeneous organisms possessing a set of defined characteristics; in bacteriology, the set of descendants that retains the characteristics of the ancestor; members of a s. that subsequently differ from the original isolate are … Medical dictionary
Shear strain — is a strain that acts parallel to the face of a material that it is acting on. Normal strain acts perpendicular to the face of that it is acting on. There are two ways to interpret shear strain: the average shear strain and the engineering shear… … Wikipedia
Breaking Strain (short story) — Breaking Strain, also known as Thirty Seconds Thirty Days, is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949. It was adapted into a movie in 1994 under the title [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108380/ Trapped in Space] .Plot… … Wikipedia
To strain a point — Point Point, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L. punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.] 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
avoidance relationships — A generic term applied to certain potentially difficult or stressful affinal (‘by marriage’) secondary relationships in extended families. In Western societies the archetypical instance is mother in law avoidance. These relationships are, to a… … Dictionary of sociology
trying — try·ing || traɪɪŋ adj. difficult to endure; annoying n. attempting; testing, experimenting; examination, determination of guilt or innocence, putting on trial (Law); subjecting to strain; act of separating through heating, refining (Archaic)… … English contemporary dictionary
Gendarme (historical) — A gendarme was a heavy cavalryman of noble birth, primarily serving in the French army from the Late Medieval to the Early Modern periods of European History. Their heyday was in the late fifteenth to mid sixteenth centuries, when they provided… … Wikipedia
try — /truy/, v., tried, trying, n., pl. tries. v.t. 1. to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it s simple. 2. to test the effect or result of (often fol. by out): to try a new method; to try a recipe out. 3. to endeavor to evaluate by… … Universalium
