Durability vs. Strength — What's the Difference?

Durability is the ability of a physical product to remain functional, without requiring excessive maintenance or repair, when faced with the challenges of normal operation over its design lifetime. There are several measures of durability in use, including years of life, hours of use, and number of operational cycles.

The quality or state of being physically strong

Capable of withstanding wear and tear or decay

The capacity of an object or substance to withstand great force or pressure

Made to withstand repeated use over a relatively long period, usually several years or more

The potency or degree of concentration of a drug, chemical, or drink

Able to perform or compete over a long period, as by avoiding or overcoming injuries

A good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing

Lasting; stable

The number of people comprising a group, typically a team or army

A good or product made to withstand repeated use over a relatively long period, usually several years or more

The state or quality of being strong; physical power or capacity

Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.

The capacity to resist attack; impregnability

The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.

The capacity to resist strain or stress; durability

Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force;

The ability to deal with difficult situations or to maintain a moral or intellectual position

The number of people constituting a normal or ideal organization

Capability in terms of numbers or resources

An attribute or quality of particular worth or utility; an asset

One that is regarded as the embodiment of protective or supportive power; a support or mainstay

Degree of concentration, distillation, or saturation

Operative effectiveness or potency

Intensity, as of sound or light

Intensity of emotion or belief

Cogency or persuasiveness

Effective or binding force; efficacy

Firmness of or a continuous rising tendency in prices, as of a currency or market.

(Games) Power derived from the value of playing cards held.

The quality or degree of being strong.

The intensity of a force or power; potency.

The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.

A positive attribute.

(obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.

(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.

(obsolete) To strengthen all senses.

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; - in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; - said of literary work.

Intensity; - said of light or color.

Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; - said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

A strong place; a stronghold.

To strengthen.

The property of being physically or mentally strong;

Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war;

Physical energy or intensity;

An asset of special worth or utility;

The power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty;

The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation);

Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects;

The condition of financial success;

Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force;