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Engineering vocabulary

Terms used to describe forces, materials, designs and systems.

Tensile strengthnoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Compressionnoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Torquenoun

Core Mechanical engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Stressnoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Strainnoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Tolerancenoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Prototypenoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Loadnoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Fatiguenoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Resonancenoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Efficiencynoun

Core Engineering term with a plain-English definition.

Redundancynoun

Core Systems engineering term with a plain-English definition.