Stress
Stress has different meanings in different fields:
- Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
- Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase or sentence
- Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other
- Occupational stress, stress related to one's job
- Psychological stress, a feeling of strain and pressure
- Surgical stress, systemic response to surgical injury
- Stress (music), a type of emphasis placed on a particular note or set of notes
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