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tensile strength

tensile strength is the alternative form of ultimate tensile strength.

Meaning of ultimate tensile strength

Noun

ultimate tensile strength (countable and uncountable, plural ultimate tensile strengths)

  1. The greatest tensile engineering stress a material can withstand before it fractures.

Forms of tensile strength

pluraltensile strengths

Questions about tensile strength

What is tensile strength the alternative form of?
Tensile strength is the alternative form of ultimate tensile strength.

Words near tensile strength in the dictionary

  1. tensies
  2. tensification
  3. tensile
  4. tensile strain
  5. tensile strains
  6. tensile strength
  7. tensile strengths
  8. tensile stress
  9. tensiled
  10. tensilely
  11. tensileness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tensile strength (page history and authors); ultimate tensile strength (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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