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nontensile

nontensile adjective: not tensile.

Adjective

nontensile (not comparable)

  1. Not tensile.

Origin of nontensile

From non- + tensile.

Questions about nontensile

What does nontensile mean?
Nontensile means not tensile.
What part of speech is nontensile?
Nontensile is an adjective.

Words near nontensile in the dictionary

  1. nontender
  2. nontendered
  3. nontendering
  4. nontenders
  5. nontennis
  6. nontensile
  7. nontensioned
  8. nontensorial
  9. nontent
  10. nontenure
  11. nontenured

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