A small, malleable toy ball filled with soft material, used to relieve muscle tension in one's palm and hand and alleviate general feelings of anxiety.

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

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

(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 function

plural of stress ball

(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).

Alternative form of stressfree.

Alternative spelling of eustress

Alternative form of destress.