tensility

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noun

The quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).

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Meanings

nountensility (countable and uncountable, plural tensilities)

plural tensilities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).

    the tensility of the muscles

    1659, 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
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    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

Origin

From tensile + -ity.

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APA

tensility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tensility

MLA

“tensility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tensility. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tensility,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tensility.

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