tensile strength

A form of ultimate tensile strength — The greatest tensile engineering stress a material can withstand before it fractures.

Meanings

nountensile strength (countable and uncountable, plural tensile strengths)

plural tensile strengths

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of ultimate tensile strength.

Translations

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