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Meanings
adjective
  • having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks.
    E.g. she cut through the water with her strong arms
  • able to withstand force, pressure, or wear.
    E.g. cotton is strong, hard-wearing, and easy to handle
  • very intense.
    E.g. a strong smell
  • used after a number to indicate the size of a group.
    E.g. a hostile crowd several thousands strong
  • denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by a change of vowel within the stem rather than by addition of a suffix (e.g. swim, swam, swum ).
  • relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10−13 cm (so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge), and which conserves strangeness, parity, and isospin.

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