TENSILE STRENGTH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("tensile strength" is a kind of...):

durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

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