microstretch
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]microstretch (plural microstretches)
- (physics) microscopic stretch (of a microelement of a solid)
- 3853-3870 (2007), Markus Lazar, Gerard A. Maugin, “On microcontinuum field theories: the Eshelby stress tensor and incompatibility conditions”, in Philosophical Magazine[1], volumes 3853-3870, pages 3853–3870:
- We investigate linear theories of incompatible micromorphic elasticity, incompatible microstretch elasticity, incompatible micropolar elasticity and the incompatible dilatation theory of elasticity (elasticity with voids).
Verb
[edit]microstretch (third-person singular simple present microstretches, present participle microstretching, simple past and past participle microstretched)
- (physics, transitive) To stretch microscopically.