to stress test
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- verb
- /strɛs tɛst/
- Specialized
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- The engineers decided to stress test the new software by simulating heavy user traffic.
So it's like, so you should always be stress testing the memory system.
- So it's like, so you should always be stress testing the memory system.
- Is there an equivalent thing in Swift that really stress tested the community?
- And we would do custom photography and we would check every link and we'd stress test the site.
- So are there other approaches that that you like to use or like others to use on your ideas for stress testing?
- But there's definitely been because lots of this stuff can sound fantastic, but never actually get stress tested in the real world.
- And it could just be sending, you know, maybe an unexpected e-mail or, or having a phone call or stress testing it in, in, in some way.
- The article says that when and discovered these Indian options trades, they stress tested the positions to see how they would have performed in a falling market.
- And that's with fire strike extreme stress testing for about an hour.
- And then when something's come in that's stress tested, that beyond breaking, maybe it doesn't quite work so much.
- Although I've never seen anyone actually really do that on a practical level other than stress testing and trying to see how accurate that that Z motor is.
Examples
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The article says that when and discovered these Indian options trades, they stress tested the positions to see how they would have performed in a falling market.
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We stress test global economies to gauge how they will do under the pressure of monetary crises and shifts.
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Now let's hit it with a stress test, shall we?
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Monday afternoon, we stress-tested our system.
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The time has come to "stress test" America's largest banks again.
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Go watch our video where we stress tested the fireproof hard drive enclosure.
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The design team stress-tested the frame to 300,000 pounds and to acceleration forces of 2 gs.
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The current information deluge is stress testing the underlying assumption that general-purpose hardware and software can meet the demands of business analytics that enterprises need today.
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Before launch, we need to stress test the network to ensure it can handle peak usage times.
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To assess its durability, the team will stress test the vehicle under extreme conditions.
Synonyms
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3.4
To make someone or something work near its limits
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to subject a system to heavy load' is directly and compositionally derived from 'stress' (to apply pressure) combined with 'test' (an activity that checks performance). This straightforward action–purpose combination follows common English compounding/verb phrase patterns and is likely clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Stress test as a verb comes from the same picture: to stress, meaning 'put pressure on', and to test, meaning 'check', something. So to stress test is 'to put extra load on something to see if it keeps working'.