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• Fatigue (safety) — Why the hours of service are important: a graph outlining the relationship between number of hours driven and the percent of crashes related to driver fatigue. Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration[1] Fatigue is a major safety… …   Wikipedia

• fatigue — [[t]fəti͟ːg[/t]] fatigues 1) N UNCOUNT Fatigue is a feeling of extreme physical or mental tiredness. She continued to have severe stomach cramps, aches, fatigue, and depression... Clarke says his team could have lasted another 15 days before… …   English dictionary

• fatigue — I. noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, from fatiguer to fatigue, from Latin fatigare; akin to Latin affatim sufficiently Date: 1669 1. a. labor b. manual or menial work performed by military personnel c. plural the uniform or work… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fatigue — {{11}}fatigue (n.) 1660s, that which causes weariness, from Fr. fatigue weariness, from fatiguer to tire, from L. fatigare, originally to cause to break down, later, to weary, fatigue, tire out, from pre Latin adj. *fati agos driving to the point …   Etymology dictionary

• fatigue — fa|tigue [fəˈti:g] n [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: Latin fatigare to make tired ] 1.) [U] very great tiredness = ↑exhaustion with fatigue ▪ Sam s face was grey with fatigue. from fatigue ▪ He s suffering from physical and mental f …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• fatigue — fa|tigue1 [ fə tig ] noun uncount * 1. ) a feeling of being extremely tired, either physically or mentally: A child s sleep problems cause parents fatigue and unnecessary guilt. a ) the feeling that you have done a particular activity for so long …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• fatigue — I UK [fəˈtiːɡ] / US [fəˈtɪɡ] noun [uncountable] * 1) a) a feeling of being extremely tired, either physically or mentally A child s sleep problems cause parents fatigue and unnecessary guilt. b) the feeling that you have done a particular… …   English dictionary

• break down — verb 1. make ineffective (Freq. 3) Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination • Syn: ↑crush • Derivationally related forms: ↑breakdown • Hypernyms: ↑change, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• fatigue — the tendency for a metal to break under conditions of repeated cyclic stressing considerable below the ultimate tensile strength. The insidious feature of fatigue failure is that there is no obvious warning, a crack forms without appreciable… …   Mechanics glossary

• fatigue — 1 noun 1 (U) very great tiredness: Steve was pale with fatigue after two sleepless nights. 2 (U) a weakness in metal or wood, caused when it is bent or stretched many times, which is likely to make it break; metal fatigue 3 fatigues (plural) a)… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• break down — Synonyms and related words: afflict, aggrieve, alphabetize, analyze, anatomize, anguish, arrange, assay, assort, bawl, beat down, bend, blow, blow down, blubber, boohoo, break, break up, bring down, bring low, bring to tears, bring to terms,… …   Moby Thesaurus