Material property of a solid body measuring as proportionality coefficient between tangent strain \epsilon_{\bot } and axial strain \epsilon_{\parallel} in the linear elastic region of a material:
| (1) | \nu = - \frac{\delta \epsilon_{\bot }}{\delta \epsilon_{\parallel}} |
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