fatigue
See also: fatigué
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈtiːɡ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːɡ
Noun
fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)
- A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
- (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
- 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399
- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.
- 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399
Synonyms
Derived terms
- fatigues (military work clothing)
Translations
weariness
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menial task, especially in military
material failure due to cyclic loading
Verb
fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)
- (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
- (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it
- 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1
- The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.
- 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1
- (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
- (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
Related terms
Translations
to tire or make weary
to lose strength or energy
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Further reading
- fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fatigue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.tiɡ/
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Related terms
Further reading
- “fatigue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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