Thesaurus / tensile
FEEDBACK- adjustable
- bending
- ductile
- elastic
- extensible
- extensile
- flexile
- formable
- formative
- impressionable
- like putty
- limber
- lithe
- malleable
- moldable
- plastic
- pliable
- pliant
- soft
- spongy
- springy
- stretch
- stretchable
- stretchy
- supple
- tractable
- tractile
- whippy
- willowy
- yielding
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It knocks the wind out of you even before it makes you think—though it does makes you think, too, especially about the tensile fierceness of refusing victimhood.
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN STARTS WITH A CATHARTIC BLAST. THEN IT GETS BOGGED DOWN WITH CYNICISMSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKJANUARY 15, 2021TIMEIts average length is about twenty inches, and its tensile strength is superior to that of cotton.
TEXTILESWILLIAM H. DOOLEYIt lacks the tensile strength and elasticity, and is of higher specific gravity than true silk.
TEXTILESWILLIAM H. DOOLEYWhat is very high tensile strength in boiler iron apt to go with?
FARM ENGINES AND HOW TO RUN THEMJAMES H. STEPHENSONIn the first place, it gives the steel a greater tensile strength.
UNITED STATES STEELARUNDEL COTTERNickel is about ten per cent heavier than steel, and has a tensile strength of 90,000 pounds per square inch.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLYIt is nearly three times as heavy as steel and its tensile strength is 25,000 pounds per square inch.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLYIt forms a metal with high tensile strength while being ductile and malleable.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLYNickel aluminum has a tensile strength of 40,000 pounds per square inch.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLYAlloy steels can be made with tensile strengths as high as 300,000 pounds per square inch.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING AND CUTTINGHAROLD P. MANLYWORDS RELATED TO TENSILE
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