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- noun engineering The ratio of the
maximum stress orload which something can withstand to the stress or load which it was designed to withstand undernormal operation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use
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