Usually means: Concrete reinforced by tensioned steel.
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  1. prestressed: Merriam-Webster
  2. prestressed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prestressed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prestressed: Wordnik
  5. prestressed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prestressed: Wiktionary
  7. Prestressed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. prestressed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prestressed)

▸ adjective:  Having been stressed before use

Similar:
pre-stressed, prestrained, predistressed, pretensioned, prehard, poststress, prestimulated, predamaged, primed, predeformed, more...

Opposite:
unstressed, post-tensioned, non-prestressed

Phrases:
prestressed concrete, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     steel blue,     midnight blue,     gunmetal, more...

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Similar:
pre-stressed, prestrained, predistressed, pretensioned, prehard, poststress, prestimulated, predamaged, primed, predeformed, more...

Opposite:
unstressed, post-tensioned, non-prestressed

Phrases:
prestressed concrete, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     steel blue,     midnight blue,     gunmetal, more...



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