Distress

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In Maritime and Aircraft terms, distress is defined as:

Grave and Imminent Danger to Life Person Vessel or Aircraft

Requiring Immediate Assistance

  • In medicine, distress is stress (medicine) caused by adverse events.
  • Distress is a novel by Greg Egan
  • Distress is also used by Search and Rescue services to describe targets in adverse or critical conditions.
  • Distress can also refer to the process whereby materials are worn down by time and natural forces (they are distressed).
  • In law, distress, or distraint, is the act of seizing goods to compel payment, or the goods thus seized.

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