tensility

The youth director is also trying to get a new archery club off the ground, at which kids will learn the science, mathematics and engineering concepts that surround bows, be it the tensility of the wood they are constructed from or the trajectory and ballistic force of an arrow once it’s launched from the string.

Lacking the color, grain and organic tensility of wood, both pieces have a dull, leaden appearance made worse by waxy, lumpy, greenish-brown surfaces.

Stronger by mass than steel and more durable and flexible than Kevlar, they are also alive to ambient conditions and made to adapt and retain their tensility as humidity and temperature change.

P It wasn’t easy to visit Alcaeus and hear him talk, as he reclined at supper, his hands close to a lighted lamp, restless fingers, perturbed in a blunted way: the tensility of the battlefield gone from them: moving, they move in on themselves.

P It wasn’t easy to visit Alcaeus and hear him talk, as he reclined at supper, his hands close to a lighted lamp, restless fingers, perturbed in a blunted way: the tensility of the battlefield gone from them: moving, they move in on themselves.