0 past simple and past participle of exert
1 to use something such as authority, power, influence, etc. in order to make something happen:
2 to make a mental or physical effort:
I was too tired to exert myself.
Thanks to universities' dual function as teaching and researching institutions, a powerful impact is exerted by the language of academic publication.
In such static solutions the hydrostatic pressure in the fluid and the elastic pressure exerted by the walls of the crack are in balance.
The more broadly based they are, the more likely that effort must be exerted to extract the revenue.
Near the end of the mid-nineteenth century, the control exerted by the king over women's marriages had obviously begun to provoke some strong resistance.
The third element thus exerted a double function.
The salts are exerted from the 'cultivator' at a rate proportional to their concentration.
The equation would proceed to the right using sunlight as an energy source and to the left in darkness or when work is exerted.
The same pressure was exerted by the trade unions, although for rather different reasons.
