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Meanings of tensile strength in English

Russian
прочность на разрыв
Portuguese
resistência à tração
Spanish
tension de rotura
Catalan
resistència a la tracció

Capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to elongate; resists tension (being pulled apart); measured by the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.

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прочность на разрыв
Usage of tensile strength in English
1
Collagen type I provides the main tensile strength of the fetal membranes.
Pubmed
2
These lines've got great tensile strength, but they're crap for heat resistance.
Cibola Burn
3
Hip-hop can be stretched in a way that exceeds its tensile strength.
Ebony
4
The skin specimens were analyzed in vertical and horizontal tensile strength tests.
Pubmed
5
Now, Howat told himself, it was merely a question of tensile strength.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
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She reminded him of a panther: fierce, her limbs moving with tensile strength.
Damaged
7
Compared with CS-control film, CS-PC films exhibited lower solubility and higher tensile strength.
Pubmed
8
The strength of a material can be describe by the ultimate tensile strength.
Wired
9
Its tensile strength would be the equivalent of an eighteen-mile wall of steel.
Invaders from the Infinite
10
When it stops, it has a high and obstinate tensile strength.
A Matter of Importance
11
We've never had anything with that much tensile strength-noton Grayson.
Field of Dishonor
12
Its hardness is not lessened by annealing, and it has great tensile strength.
Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting / Electric, Forge and Thermit ...
13
Mean tensile strength of mesh incorporation after 30 days was higher with Parieten mesh.
Pubmed
14
It's also got incredible tensile strength, which is good for a pair of kicks.
Wired
15
Aside from their tensile strength, the replicas outperformed their modern counterparts in every category.
The new yorker
16
But Jarrett's solo works stretch that art to the limits of its tensile strength.
The Irish Times