Silent Stress: A noticeable pause or musical rest with all the value of a beat in highly rhythmic verse. An example is the caesura that appears at the end of the first lines in (spoken-aloud) nursery rhymes such as ding dong bell, pussy's in the well.

 

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Stress Management: The design and implementation of workplace programs and services intended to combat employee stress and improve overall employee morale, effectiveness and productivity.

Stress Interview: An interviewing style whereby the interviewer subjects a candidate to pressure or stress to ascertain how the candidate reacts under such conditions.

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Stress: Forces from the outside world impinging on the individual. Stress is a normal part of life that can help us learn and grow. Conversely, stress can cause us significant problems.

Stress Marks: Black lines on a photographic emulsion caused by friction or pressure.

Stressed Member: A component that is an integral part of the whole structure. A common motorcycle use of this term is when an engine is a stressed member of its frame.

Zone Of Physiological Stress: The area in a populations geographic range where members of population are rare due to physical and biological limiting factors.

Unstressed: Lightly stressed as opposed to heavily stressed--i.e., a syllable that has little prominence when spoken aloud.

Thermal Stress Relieving: A process of relieving stresses by uniform heating of a structure or a portion of a structure, followed by uniform cooling.