Stress

Stress has different meanings in different fields:

Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase or sentence
Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other
Occupational stress, stress related to one's job
Psychological stress, a feeling of strain and pressure
Surgical stress, systemic response to surgical injury
Stress (music), a type of emphasis placed on a particular note or set of notes

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