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What does unstressed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word unstressed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated
  2. not subject to stress
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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.
The stressed emotional eaters ate more sweet, high-fat, energy-dense foods than did the unstressed non-emotional eaters.
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.

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