tensile

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ten=sile

CIDE DICTIONARY

tensile, a. [See Tense, a.].

•  Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tensile, adj.
1 of or relating to tension.
2 capable of being drawn out or stretched.

Idiom

tensile strength resistance to breaking under tension.

Derivative

tensility n.

Etymology

med.L tensilis (as TENSE(1))

ROGET THESAURUS

tensile

Elasticity

N elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.