hooke's law

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   (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced

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Questions about hooke's law

What does hooke's law mean?

hooke's law means "(physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced".

Is hooke's law a common word?

hooke's law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.