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Hooke's law

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Hooke's law/hʊks/

▶noun Physics a law stating that the strain in a solid is proportional to the applied stress, within the elastic limit of that solid.

– origin C19: named after the 17th-cent. English scientist Robert Hooke.

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