preload
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Verb
preload (third-person singular simple present preloads, present participle preloading, simple past and past participle preloaded)
Noun
preload (countable and uncountable, plural preloads)
- (anatomy) The end diastolic pressure that stretches the right or left ventricle of the heart to its greatest geometric dimensions under variable physiologic demand.
- (engineering) The internal application of stress to certain mechanical systems.
- 2008, Sam Tracy, Roadside Bicycle Repair, Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 55:
- The preload itself should be tightened gradually. Many older threadless headsets suspend their preload bolts within soft plastic caps; they sink right through easily enough.
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