Meanings
nountensile stress (countable and uncountable, plural tensile stresses)
plural tensile stresses
- countableuncountablenatural sciencesThe component of stress that causes comes from being pulled apart.
Translations
Polish naprężenie rozciągające
- naprężenie rozciągającecomponent of stress
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