stress test
a test, especially one conducted in a laboratory, to determine how much pressure, tension, wear, or the like a given product or material can withstand.
Medicine/Medical. a test of cardiovascular health made by recording heart rate, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, and other parameters while a person undergoes physical exertion.
a simulation test to determine how a given institution, system, etc., would perform under greater than usual stresses or pressures: the government’s stress test for big banks;mandatory stress tests for nuclear plants;a website stress test that simulates peak traffic.
Origin of stress test
1Words Nearby stress test
Other definitions for stress-test (2 of 2)
to subject to a stress test.
Other words from stress-test
- stress-testing, noun
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How to use stress test in a sentence
The pandemic was a stress test for these services, and they proved capable of delivering much of what we needed, when and where we needed it.
Some parts of remote living are here to stay | Katie McLean | February 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn many ways, the events of 2020 proved to be the ultimate stress test for AB InBev’s in-house team in Europe.
‘We’re building the plane while flying’: AB InBev’s in-house team plans structural changes as it takes on more work | Seb Joseph | February 10, 2021 | DigidayVenture capital as an asset class has survived the pandemic’s stress test.
US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic | Natasha Mascarenhas | December 24, 2020 | TechCrunchThis will be a huge stress test of Amazon’s infrastructure, but the e-commerce giant is in a better position than most to get through the challenge.
Deep Dive: How to grow e-commerce capabilities on Amazon | Pierre Bienaimé | December 15, 2020 | DigidayThis might mean agreeing on security requirements for voting machines, plus anonymity standards, stress tests, and verification methods such as requiring a paper backup for every vote.
How democracies can claim back power in the digital world | Amy Nordrum | September 29, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
In a new memoir, stress test: Reflections on Financial Crises, Geithner offers his take on what really happened.
Speed Read: The Juiciest Bits From Timothy Geithner’s New Memoir | William O’Connor | May 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA punching bag as treasury secretary, Geithner finally gets to unload in ‘stress test.’
Speed Read: The Juiciest Bits From Timothy Geithner’s New Memoir | William O’Connor | May 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd finally, the implementation of the post-stress test rescue plan is also flawed.
The economic assumptions behind the stress-test scenarios are also suspect.
But a stress test is inherently ambiguous, and can be interpreted any which way you like.
It would be prudent to have a thorough physical and, if you are over forty, also a stress test.
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