Fatigue vs Sluggishness - What's the difference?
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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.
* 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
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.
The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
* 2012 , , Project Syndicate,
** And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.
As nouns the difference between fatigue and sluggishness
is that fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion while sluggishness is the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.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.
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*Derived terms
* fatigues (military work clothing)Verb
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