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microtensile

microtensile adjective: tensile at a microscopic level.

Adjective

microtensile (not comparable)

  1. tensile at a microscopic level
    • We first determined the microtensile bond strength of commercially available adhesive resins to dentin surface in the presence of salivary components ( Figure 7 ).2015 July 15, Sang-Bae Lee et al., “Catechol-Functionalized Synthetic Polymer as a Dental Adhesive to Contaminated Dentin Surface for a Composite Restoration”, in Biomacromolecules, volume 16, →DOI

Origin of microtensile

From micro- + tensile.

Questions about microtensile

What does microtensile mean?
Microtensile means tensile at a microscopic level.
What part of speech is microtensile?
Microtensile is an adjective.

Words near microtensile in the dictionary

  1. microtelephones
  2. microtelephonic
  3. microtemporal
  4. microtenotomies
  5. microtenotomy
  6. microtensile
  7. microtensiometer
  8. microtensiometers
  9. microtentacle
  10. microtentacles
  11. microtephra

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