(informal) One who seemingly requires stress in order to function well, yet voices dissatisfaction over said stresses

A small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress.

A critical value of shear stress, below which a plastic or viscoplastic material behaves like a solid; above this value, a plastic material deforms and a viscoplastic material flows.

(physics) the component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.

(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).

(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.

(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

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

plural of Peierls stress

plural of genotoxic stress