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shock-resistant

American  
[shok-ri-zis-tuhnt] / ˈʃɒk rɪˌzɪs tənt /

adjective

  1. strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism.

    a shock-resistant watch.


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The phones, which run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor chips, are slightly sleeker and lighter than their predecessors but designed to be more durable and shock-resistant.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2023

Kazuo Kashio, 89, a marketing virtuoso whose family company, Casio Computer, popularized the pocket calculator, the shock-resistant wristwatch and the preview screen on digital cameras, died Monday at a hospital in Tokyo.

From Seattle Times Jun. 22, 2018

Kbabshis, as these men are known, scour villages looking for lambs that are fast, belligerent and shock-resistant.

From The Guardian Feb. 16, 2018

To become shock-resistant, we need to prepare for that, too.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2017

Takao Someya, a researcher at the University of Tokyo, has created an electronic film--made up of bendable, shock-resistant transistors embedded in plastic--that can detect pressure and temperature.

From Time Magazine Archive

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