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Pre-stressed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Pre-stressed is an adjective meaning (phonetics) Standing before a stressed syllable.

Meaning

(phonetics) Standing before a stressed syllable.

More Meanings

  1. (engineering, architecture) Of a structural member, having stress already applied during the manufacturing process in the opposite direction to the stress expected in use.

Example Sentences

pre-stressed concrete

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prestressed, predistressed, prestrained, prestress, pretensioned, poststress.

prestressedpredistressedprestrainedprestresspretensionedpoststresspredeformedprecrackedprestrungpreannealedpreconstructedprestructuralpreformedpredesignedpreinsulatedprefabpredistortedpreconstructive

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