tensile
1
6.7
- adjective
- /ˈtɛnsaɪl/
- Specialized
:
tensil
- You could build out of materials that have a very high tensile force like spider silk.
- tensile strength
They have FSC certified tensile lyocell.
- They have FSC certified tensile lyocell.
- Sustainable underwear made from trees using cloud soft tensile modal fibers renewably extracted from naturally grown Beech wood trees.
- I fell in love with its tensile strength, its rigidity, its smooth surface.
- Is there any evidence for any compounds or injectable drugs that can restore the tensile strength and thickness to the discs?
- It's just has not it has not the tensile strength, but this stuff does.
- They were intertwined in such a complex, what I call bamboo tensile strength way.
- It was a quick bowler, which probably tells you about the tensile strength and fast twitch fibre in Hamza.
- Metals, we had a pretty good understanding of what their strengths were, their ultimate strength, their fatigue strength, their compressive strength or tensive tensile strength, what have you.
Examples
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And yet it has incredible properties of high tensile strength and extreme elasticity.
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During the experiment, we measured the tensile strength of the wire to assess its suitability for construction.
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But I chose this because it has a high tensile strength and it is also fairly easy to work with.
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Instead, they will value both and strive to maintain a tensile balance between them.
Academic text (2005) -
In this example, we are considering the analysis of a tensile test specimen.
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It has a tensile strength of 6,500 psi.
Academic text (2006) -
I admit the space ladder has to use some very high-tech materials, cables with a tensile strength that's pretty remarkable, but our scientists would have developed something that would do.
Fiction book (1991) -
Spins a funnel-shaped web whose strands have a tensile strength... ...proportionately equal to the high-tension wires used in bridges.
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Sustainable underwear made from trees using cloud soft tensile modal fibers renewably extracted from naturally grown Beech wood trees.
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Normally I wouldn't use MDF because it creeps, it's not very stable, it doesn't have a lot of tensile strength, but for this build doesn't need it.
Synonyms
23
2.6
Able to return to its original shape after being stretched or pressed
10
1.9
A fabric you can pull that returns to its old shape
1
2.6
Becomes longer when you pull it and then goes back to its original size
1
7.3
Can be stretched into a thin wire without breaking
Able to be stretched into thin wire without breaking
Material that can stretch and return to its original shape, like rubber
Making something stretch or feel tight
Compounds
How Stretchable
- Specialized
1
7.3
1
2.6
- Specialized
1
6.7
23
2.6
- Specialized
2
6.6
35
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
tensile = tension (semi-transparent) = tens + ile
The adjective is recognizably related to 'tension' via the stem 'tens-', but the spelling and stem change (tension → tens-) can obscure the connection for learners.
Etymology
Tensile comes from the old Latin root tendere, which means 'to stretch', and you can see the same root in tension. So a tensile material is one that can be pulled or stretched, like a rubber band.