(medicine, pathology) A common baseball injury, affecting the contralateral side external oblique, or the trailing internal oblique.

plural of oblique strain

Alternative spelling of eyestrain

Alternative form of multistrain

Alternative spelling of Delta strain

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

plural of strain gauge

A device that measures the strain in a structural element by measuring changes in electrical resistance of a sensor attached to the element under investigation.

(engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the natural logarithm of the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length, along some axis.

(engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the of the ratio of the object's deformed length to the its initial length, along some axis.