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Tensile

Tensile Meaning & Definition
Tensile Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tensile?

[adj] capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
[adj] of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Tensile: ductile | elastic | malleable | pliable | pliant | tractile

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Tensile In Webster's Dictionary

\Ten"sile\, a. [See {Tense}, a.] 1. Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength. 2. Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. --Bacon.

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