(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.

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

(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

(pathology) leakage of urine or involuntary urination (induced by coughing, sneezing, laughing, or exercising) caused by weakness in the support of the female urethra and neck of the bladder

(archaic) Violent winds, especially those unfavourable to vessels at sea.

Alternative form of stressfree.