TENSILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tensile mean? 

• TENSILE (adjective)
  The adjective TENSILE has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to tension

2. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

  Familiarity information: TENSILE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENSILE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to tension

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

tensile pull

Pertainym:

tension ((physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

Synonyms:

ductile; malleable; pliable; pliant; tensile; tractile

Context example:

made of highly tensile steel alloy

Similar:

formed (having or given a form or shape)

 Context examples 

Testing the device's ability to withstand a constant tensile load at elevated temperatures.

(Device Creep Strength Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

This can be a result of tensile forces, compressive forces, shear, bending, tensile (pulling), or torsion.

(Device Deformation Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Intermediate filaments of neurons which add rigidity, tensile strength, and possibly intracellular transport guidance to axons and dendrites.

(Neurofilament, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

A class of intermediate filaments that form a network within epithelial cells and anchor to desmosomes, thus imparting tensile strength to the tissue

(Keratin Filament, NCI Thesaurus)