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What does unstressed mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated
  2. not subject to stress
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The final foot of the fourth line is an example of catalexis, the dropping of one or more unstressed syllables at the end of a line.
For example, bronchial epithelial cells exposed to a compressive stress in vitro elicit a profibrotic response in unstressed fibroblasts.
Stressed syllables retain full vowel quality, whereas unstressed syllables may have weak vowels.
Five research assistants, blinded to the type of glove material, tested stressed and unstressed gloves for barrier effectiveness.
When unstressed syllables are not dropped at the beginning or the end of a line, they are said to be acatalectic.
There was no significant difference in grain number per ear observed in unstressed plants of mutants.

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