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Strength

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ177204
Source-derived summary

Strength may refer to:

Personal trait

Physical strength, as in people or animals

Character strengths like those listed in the Values in Action Inventory

The exercise of willpower

Physics

Mechanical strength, the ability to withstand an applied stress or load without structural failure

Compressive strength, the capacity to withstand axially directed pushing forces

Tensile strength, the maximum stress while being stretched or pulled before necking

Shear strength, the ability to withstand shearing

Strength (explosive), the ability of an explosive to move surrounding material

Field strength, the magnitude of a field's vector

Signal strength, in telecommunications

Strength (material), the behavior of solid objects subject to stresses and strains

Music

Strength (American band), a band from Portland, Oregon

Strength (Japanese band), a band from Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Strength (The Alarm album), 1985, or the title song

Strength (Enuff Z'nuff album), 1991

Strength, an album by Asiatic Warriors

Strength, an album by The RH Factor

Strength, an album by The Violet Burning, 1992

Strength, an album by Unto Others, 2021

"Strength", a song by Abingdon Boys School

"Strength", a song by the Gear Daddies from Let's Go Scare Al, 1988

"Strength", a song by Screaming Jets from World Gone Crazy, 1997

Other

Strength (cryptography)

Strength (mathematical logic), in model theory

Strength (Tarot card), numbered either XI or VIII

USS Strength (AM-309), a U.S. Navy ship

The manpower and equipment fielded by a military unit, i.e. full-strength, half-strength etc.

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“Strength” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Strength, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1991, 1992, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Strength, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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“Strength” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Strength, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q177204. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 1991, 1992 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Strength” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.