breaking strain
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
breaking strain (plural breaking strains)
- The amount of strain which can cause something to break, according to the force or weight placed on it. Many materials, such as lines and ropes, have a specified breaking strain.
- 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:
- The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.
Translations[edit]
amount of strain which can break something
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