breaking strain

English

Noun

breaking strain (plural breaking strains)

1. 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

amount of strain which can break something

• Danish: brudstyrke c
• Finnish: murtojännitys
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bruddstyrke m

References

• “breaking strain”, in Collins English Dictionary.