Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., the strength of a body as measured by the load, per unit of cross-section, necessary to produce rupture.
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The policeman, who was young and fresh-faced and astonishingly like Sergeant Digby, lifted his nose from the car window and gave the pub a long, hard look as though calculating the breaking-strength of its structure under internal pressure.
War Game Price, Anthony 1976
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