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Meanings of tensile in English

Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out.

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Usage of tensile in English
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Collagen type I provides the main tensile strength of the fetal membranes.
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These lines've got great tensile strength, but they're crap for heat resistance.
Cibola Burn
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Hip-hop can be stretched in a way that exceeds its tensile strength.
Ebony
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When made into briquettes, the tensile breaking strain upon the square inch:
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
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The skin specimens were analyzed in vertical and horizontal tensile strength tests.
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Now, Howat told himself, it was merely a question of tensile strength.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
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He turned like a weapon on a turret: tensile, dark and cocked.
The last page
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Black spandex, pulled to its tensile limits, struggled to cover her rump.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
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She reminded him of a panther: fierce, her limbs moving with tensile strength.
Damaged
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These bubbles are a major source of tensile strain in the c-Si layer.
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In vivo, endothelial cells are constantly exposed to pulsatile shear and tensile stresses.
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Compared with CS-control film, CS-PC films exhibited lower solubility and higher tensile strength.
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The strength of a material can be describe by the ultimate tensile strength.
Wired
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Its tensile strength would be the equivalent of an eighteen-mile wall of steel.
Invaders from the Infinite
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Completely acellular cornea scaffolds were subjected to uniaxial tensile testing and reseeding assay.
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When it stops, it has a high and obstinate tensile strength.
A Matter of Importance
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