tensile strength

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   the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart

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Questions about tensile strength

What does tensile strength mean?

tensile strength means "the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart".

Is tensile strength a common word?

tensile strength is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.