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secondary stress
noun
- Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
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If the thesis in either foot is the second part of a compound it receives, of course, a secondary stress.
The secondary stress in E1 falls frequently on a short syllable, as in D1.
Whether the penultima has more than a secondary stress is a matter of dispute.
These are nouns and have the stress on the antepenultima, which in Latin bore the secondary stress.
In Anglo-Saxon verse the combination of a primary stress, a secondary stress, and an unstressed syllable, is a recognized type.
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