breaking strain

noun

The amount of strain which can cause something to break, according to the force or weight placed on it. Many materials, such as lines and ropes, have a specified breaking strain.

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Meanings

nounbreaking strain (plural breaking strains)

plural breaking strains

  1. The amount of strain which can cause something to break, according to the force or weight placed on it. Many materials, such as lines and ropes, have a specified breaking strain.

    The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.

    1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 515

Translations

Danish brudstyrke
  • brudstyrkeamount of strain which can break something
Finnish murtojännitys
  • murtojännitysamount of strain which can break something
Norwegian Bokmål bruddstyrke
  • bruddstyrkeamount of strain which can break something
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Chicago

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