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tensility

tensility noun: the quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).

Noun

tensility (countable and uncountable, plural tensilities)

  1. The quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).
    • the tensility of the muscles1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC
    • It is therefore almost certain that mutability depends on changes not in the tensility of the collagen fibrils, but in the cohesive forces holding the fibrils together.2005, Valeria Matranga, Echinodermata

tensility meaning in Tamil

tensility in Tamil

விறைப்புத் தன்மை

Forms of tensility

pluraltensilities

Origin of tensility

From tensile + -ity.

Questions about tensility

What does tensility mean?
Tensility means the quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).
What is tensility in Tamil?
Tensility in Tamil is விறைப்புத் தன்மை. See Tensility meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tensility?
Tensility is a noun.
What is the plural of tensility?
The plural of tensility is tensilities.

Words near tensility in the dictionary

  1. tensilely
  2. tensileness
  3. tensilin
  4. tensilins
  5. tensilities
  6. tensility
  7. tensimeter
  8. tensimeters
  9. tensin
  10. tensing
  11. tensing up

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