"industrial strength" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} industrial strength (not comparable)
  1. Made for use by businesses or manufacturers, as opposed to home consumers, and therefore typically larger, stronger, more difficult to operate, and less attractive in appearance. Tags: not-comparable Translations (made for business use): teollisuus- (Finnish), teollisuusmittakaavan (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-industrial_strength-en-adj-zHDAXFiK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 28 12 Disambiguation of 'made for business use': 93 7
  2. (often used whimsically) Unusually large or potent. Tags: not-comparable, often
    Sense id: en-industrial_strength-en-adj-aTVGmd4H

Noun

Forms: industrial strengths [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} industrial strength (plural industrial strengths)
  1. Ability or capacity, as related to industry. Translations (made for business use): teollinen voima (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-industrial_strength-en-noun-dXtZdQtE

Inflected forms

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