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prestress

prestress verb: to apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.

Verb

prestress (third-person singular simple present prestresses, present participle prestressing, simple past and past participle prestressed)

  1. To apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.

Adjective

prestress (not comparable)

  1. Before a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
    • Thus, the acute accent is typically characterized by an F₀-maximum in the prestress syllable and an F₀-minimum in the stressed syllable, while for the grave accent the corresponding F₀-maximum occurs in the stressed syllable and the F₀-minimum in the poststress syllable.1996, Ann M. Peters, Sven Strömqvist, “The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes”, in James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth, editors, Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech To...

prestress meaning in Tamil

prestress in Tamil

முன் தகைவு, முன்தகைவு

Forms of prestress

third-person singular presentprestresses
present participleprestressing
past participleprestressed
pastprestressed

Origin of prestress

From pre- + stress.

Questions about prestress

What does prestress mean?
Prestress means to apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.
What is prestress in Tamil?
Prestress in Tamil is முன் தகைவு, முன்தகைவு. See Prestress meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prestress?
Prestress can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of prestress?
The past tense of prestress is prestressed.

Words near prestress in the dictionary

  1. prestreak
  2. prestrengthen
  3. prestrengthened
  4. prestrengthening
  5. prestrengthens
  6. prestress
  7. prestressed
  8. prestressed concrete
  9. prestresses
  10. prestressing
  11. prestretch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prestress (page history and authors); prestress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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