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Definition of Tensile
1. Adjective. Of or relating to tension. "Tensile pull"
2. Adjective. Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out. "Made of highly tensile steel alloy"
Similar to: Formed
Derivative terms: Ductility, Malleability, Pliability, Pliancy, Pliantness
Definition of Tensile
1. a. Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
Definition of Tensile
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to tension ¹
2. Adjective. Capable of being stretched; ductile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tensile
1. tensible [adj] - See also: tensible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tensile
Literary usage of Tensile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture, Properties, and Uses by Adelbert Philo Mills (1915)
"High-limed cements which are still perfectly sound are slow setting, but attain
their maximum strength early, sometimes showing retrogression in tensile ..."
2. Materials of Construction by Harry E. Pulver (1922)
"tensile Strength of Concrete.—Satisfactory tensile tests of concrete are ...
The tensile strength varies from about y\ o to J^2 of the compressive strength. ..."
3. Clays: Their Occurrence, Properties, and Uses, with Especial Reference to by Heinrich Ries (1906)
"tensile Strength Definition.—The tensile strength of a clay is the resistance which
... Although it was formerly believed by many that tensile strength and ..."
4. Clays: Their Occurrence, Properties, and Uses, with Especial Reference to by Heinrich Ries (1908)
"tensile Strength Definition.—The tensile strength of a clay is the resistance
... The tensile strength is an important property, and has a practical bearing ..."
5. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"Furthermore, tensile tests producing accurate results are hard to make on account of
... tensile Strength of Concrete* * Tests at Massachusetts Institute of ..."
6. Principles of Reinforced Concrete Construction by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Edward Rose Maurer (1907)
"tensile Strength. 1:2:4 3000 Ibs/in2 180 lbs/in2 1:3:6 1800 " 115 " Tests by
Professor WK Hatt f gave the following results,: Kind of Concrete. ..."
7. Strength of Materials by James Ellsworth Boyd (1917)
"A part of a solid is subjected to a horizontal tensile stress of 600 pounds per
square inch and a horizontal and a vertical shearing stress of 400 pounds ..."
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