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TENSILE STRENGTH
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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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