prestress

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ stress.

Verb

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

(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.

Translations

to apply stress

Finnish: esijännittää
Swedish: förspänna

Adjective

prestress (not comparable)

(linguistics) Before a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
- 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.
Coordinate term: poststress