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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., the strain corresponding to the elastic limit of the substance strained.
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I proposed a simple experiment with chain cables, which, it occurred to me, would show quite a different result ” namely, that the capability of resisting the severest proof-strain would rise rather than fall at each successive proof of the same chain cable.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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