Crossword clues for tensile
tensile
- Silent twisting absorbing energy of stretching
- Part of roof covering spaces that may be stretched
- Type of strength
- Like a bungee cord
- Stretchy, like a bungee cord
- Like elastic
- __ strength: ability to withstand stretching
- Like strength measured in stretchiness
- Capable of drawing out
- Capable of being drawn out
- ___ strength
- Kind of strength related to stress
- Capable of being stretched
- Stretchable
- ___ strength (cohesiveness)
- Able to withstand stress
- Like bridge cables
- ___ strength (breaking point)
- Extendible
- Capable of being stretched in future possibly to include the centre of Basildon
- Strength as may be required in steel construction?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tensile \Ten"sile\, a. [See Tense, a.]
Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "stretchable," from Modern Latin tensilis "capable of being stretched," from Latin tensus, past participle of tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). Meaning "pertaining to tension" is from 1841.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to tension 2 Capable of being stretched; ductile
WordNet
adj. of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull"
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" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tractile]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "tensile".
Extraordinary modulus of tensile strength approaches quantum limits, enabling use as skyline cable.
The line was calibrated to a tensile strength of one hundred twenty pounds, for it was designed to withstand the deep-water surges of giant marlin and bluefin tuna.
He learned the tensile strength of the local teak or cedar with near-native fluency, jackfruit disaster notwithstanding.
She discovered that Ty knows how to produce a diamond gel with a density only ten times more than air, yet with a tensile strength of a thousand tons per square inch.
If there were real artefacts, physicists and chemists would be fighting for the privilege of discovering that there are aliens among us who use, say, unknown alloys, or materials of extraordinary tensile strength or ductility or conductivity.
They had narrow ropy limbs that looked as though they had no muscular strength at all, though they could muster startling tensile force when needed: Joseph had seen Indigenes lift bundles of faggots that would break the back of a sturdy Folker.
It's apparently been subjected to huge tensile and compressional stresses.
Tensile and compressional stresses--tidal forces--are exactly what you expect if you fall down a classical black hole.
Tensile and compressional stresses -- tidal forces -- are exactly what you expect if you fall down a classical black hole.
A third hose on the port side was coupled up, but the release valve refused to turn: attacked with hammers and crowbars, it sheered off at the base-at extremely low temperatures, molecular changes occur in metals, cut tensile strength to a fraction-the high-pressure water drenching everyone in the vicinity.
From Cambridge came an estimate for the minimum tensile strength of scrith: of the order of magnitude of the force that holds an atomic nucleus together.
The resulting blackish-red bricks had a tensile strength that was technically adequate for use in the barrel vaults, but Gene wasn't happy.
The resulting blackish-red bricks had a tensile strength that was technically adequate for use in the barrel vaults, but Gene wasn’.
There was a little box on the front of the GPEM suits that automatically evaluated a specimen as to appearance, density, tensile strength, crystal structure if any, melting and boiling points, chemical composition, presence of microorganisms, and so forth.
The inner layer was lined by carbon nanotubes only a nanometer wide, rolled up sheets of graphite with a tensile strength greater than steel.