Complete Definition of "pre-stressed"

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Adjective
pre-stressed

  1. context|engineering|architecture Of a structural member, having stress already applied during the manufacturing process in the opposite direction to the stress expected in use.

#:pre-stressed concrete

vi:pre-stressed

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