Fatigue vs Fatigability - What's the difference?
fatigue | fatigability |
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
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A menial task, especially in the military.
(engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
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to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
(medicine) Having a medical condition in which fatigue is easily induced; easily susceptible to fatigue.
As nouns the difference between fatigue and fatigability
is that fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion while fatigability is having a medical condition in which fatigue is easily induced; easily susceptible to fatigue.As a verb fatigue
is to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.fatigue
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- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.