tensile
Example Sentences
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In response, zoo staff "made the habitat even more secure by adding stainless steel cargo clips rated at 450 pounds tensile strength", but of course that still "wasn't enough for Ben".
From BBC
But tensile strength testing showed the pistachio shell material is far stronger, likely because its cells have three times as many lobes as walnut cells.
From Science Magazine
It provides the tensile strength missing within the concrete itself.
From Washington Post
For all our scientific and technological might, humans struggle to manufacture materials as tensile as a spider's silk.
From Salon
The bizarre and highly tensile structure of their bones allowed pterosaurs to be both very strong and very light-weight.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
