Strength

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Strength may refer to:

Physical strength

  • Physical strength, as in people or animals
  • Hysterical strength, extreme strength occurring when people are in life-and-death situations
  • Superhuman strength, great physical strength far above human capability
  • A common character attribute in role-playing games

As an abstract or psychological trait

  • Character strengths like those listed in the Values in Action Inventory
  • Virtue, and moral uprightness
  • Courage or fortitude, in the face of moral, physical, emotional, or social adversity
  • Persuasion, in an argument
  • The exercise of willpower
  • The training of and learned determination and perseverance
  • Resoluteness of body and mind, physical endurance

Politics and statecraft

  • Party strengths, see political party
  • Military strength

Physics

  • Mechanical strength, the ability to withstand an applied stress or load without structural failure
    • Compressive strength, the capacity to withstand axially directed pushing forces
    • Tensile strength, the maximum stress while being stretched or pulled before necking
    • Shear strength, the ability to withstand shearing
  • Strength (explosive), the ability of an explosive to move surrounding material
  • Field strength, the magnitude of a field's vector
    • Signal strength, the magnitude of an electric field at a reference point
  • Strength (material), the behavior of solid objects subject to stresses and strains

Music

  • Strength (American band), a band from Portland, Oregon
  • Strength (Japanese band), a band from Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
  • Strength (The Alarm album), 1985
  • Strength (Enuff Z'nuff album), 1991
  • Strength, an album by Asiatic Warriors
  • Strength, an album by Chris Rene
  • Strength, an album by The RH Factor
  • Strength, an album by The Violet Burning, 1992
  • "Strength", a song by the Gear Daddies from their 1988 album Let's Go Scare Al
  • "Strength", a song by Screaming Jets from their 1997 album World Gone Crazy
  • "Strength" a song by the band Zebrahead
  • "Strength" a song by the band Ignite
  • "Strength" a song by the band Information Society
  • "Strength" a song by the rapper Eminem
  • "Strength" a song by the band Abingdon Boys School

Other

  • Strength (cryptography)
  • Strength (mathematical logic), in model theory
  • Strength (Tarot card), numbered either XI or VIII
  • Strong monad, in category theory in mathematics
  • USS Strength (AM-309), a U.S. Navy ship

See also

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  • All pages with titles containing Strength
  • All pages with titles beginning with Strength
  • Strengths and weaknesses (disambiguation)
  • Power (disambiguation)
  • Reliability (disambiguation)
  • Strong (disambiguation)
  • Stronger (disambiguation)
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