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Tensile Ten Suhl Adjective Capable Stretched Drawn Ductile Pertaining

The adjective "tensile" describes something capable of being stretched or drawn out, or relating to tension, such as "tensile strain."

Adjektivet "tensile" beskriver något som kan sträckas ut, eller som rör spänning, såsom "tensile strain".

Back tensile \TEN-suhl\
Front
adjective
1. Capable of being stretched or drawn out; ductile.
2. Of or pertaining to tension: tensile strain.

[This late Renaissance word tensile was derived in 1626 from the Latin verb tendere meaning "to stretch."]

Claire's tensile features pull themselves tight with glee. - Zadie Smith, On Beauty

One way of increasing the tensile strength in a wooden bow at any time of the year was to apply a sinew backing. - Louis Bird, Jennifer S. H. Brown, Anne Lindsay, Telling Our Stories

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