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Plural of stress

regular plural

The plural of stress is stresses.

Forms of stress

Singularstress /ˈstɹɛs/
Pluralstresses
Countablecountable and uncountable

Stresses in a sentence

  • The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.From the entry surveil
  • "In 14 years of operation, we have never once delayed a passenger train," Griffiths stresses.2026 July 22, Richard Wilcock, “The return of Red Star?”, in RAIL, number 2066, page 35. From the entry dwell time
  • The aligned molecules try to retangle themselves and if this is hindered additional normal stresses arise.2019, Joseph H. Spurk, Nuri Aksel, Fluid Mechanics, page 89. From the entry retangle
  • The passage stresses his success, ubiquity, and seemingly effortless ability to negotiate a number of cultural terrains.2014, Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner, “Introduction: “It’s got to feel real but not be real” (Ice-T)”, in Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural…. From the entry pop-cultural
  • For, stresses Cowart in the conclusion, the genealogist is also a visionary.2013 winter, Christian Moraru, “David Cowart. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History. […]”, in John N. Duvall, editor, Modern…. From the entry Pynchonian

Meaning of stress

  1. noun A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
  2. noun Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
  3. noun The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.

Full definition of stress

Questions about the plural of stress

What is the plural of stress?
The plural of stress is stresses.
Is stress countable?
Stress is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stress (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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