tensile strength
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- noun
- /ˈtɛnsaɪl strɛŋkθ/
- Specialized
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resistencia tensil
- It has amazing tensile strength that's found in cartilage and teeth and bone.
- high tensile strength
- minimum tensile strength
- increase in tensile strength
Is there any evidence for any compounds or injectable drugs that can restore the tensile strength and thickness to the discs?
- Is there any evidence for any compounds or injectable drugs that can restore the tensile strength and thickness to the discs?
- I fell in love with its tensile strength, its rigidity, its smooth surface.
- 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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Inclusion of fibers can greatly increase the tensile strength of clay soil and soil cement.
Academic text (2016) -
The branches have a tensile strength that allows them to be bent more than double without breaking.
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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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That tensile strength is off the charts.
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The rate at which surgical wounds initially gain tensile strength is slow.
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And yet it has incredible properties of high tensile strength and extreme elasticity.
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Although it is relatively light, spruce has high tensile strength along the grain.
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Therefore, increasing the length of fibers in the reinforced soil may result in greater tensile strength.
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It has tremendous tensile strength, and it weighs only a fifth as much as steel.
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Engineering materials require high tensile strength to withstand heavy loads without breaking.
Synonyms
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How well a thing resists force without breaking
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived: 'tensile' (relating to being stretched) modifies 'strength' (capacity to withstand force), so 'tensile strength' literally denotes the strength of a material under stretching. Although the term is technical, the adjective+noun composition is regular and has close equivalents in many languages, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Tensile strength comes from the simple idea of pulling on a material to see how strong it is. The word tensile means 'to stretch' and strength is how much force it can take, so tensile strength means the maximum force a material can take when you 'pull' or 'stretch' it before it 'breaks'.