TENSILE STRENGTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tensile strength mean? 

• TENSILE STRENGTH (noun)
  The noun TENSILE STRENGTH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TENSILE STRENGTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENSILE STRENGTH (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)

 Context examples 

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)