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prestress

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ stress.

Verb

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prestress (third-person singular simple present prestresses, present participle prestressing, simple past and past participle prestressed)

  1. (construction) To apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.

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Adjective

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prestress (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Before a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
    Coordinate term: poststress
    • 1996, Ann M. Peters, Sven Strömqvist, “The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes”, in James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth, editors, Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition, New York, NY: Psychology Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 217:
      Thus, the acute accent is typically characterized by an F0-maximum in the prestress syllable and an F0-minimum in the stressed syllable, while for the grave accent the corresponding F0-maximum occurs in the stressed syllable and the F0-minimum in the poststress syllable.