strength
Definitions
General Science
Agriculture
- noun the ability of wheat flour to produce a yeasted dough capable of retaining carbon dioxide bubbles until the proteins in the bubble walls become relatively rigid, which happens at about 75° C. The milling quality of wheat is measured by the Hagberg test.
Aviation
Banking
- noun the fact of being strong, or being at a high level
Construction
- See compressive strength, fatigue strength, flexural strength, shear strength, splitting tensile strength, tensile strength, ultimate strength, and yield strength.
Military
- noun a state of being strong or in large numbers
- noun the number of troops, aircraft, ships or vehicles available to a grouping
Origin & History of “strength”
Strength is of
course closely related to
strong. It was formed in prehistoric Germanic (as *
stranggithō)
from the
ancestor of
modern English strong. The
verb strengthen was coined from it in the 13th
century.
