Crossword-Solution: TENSILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tensile | a. | Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength. |
| Tensile | a. | Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENSILE | anagram | LISENTE, SETLINE, SILENTE |
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Sentences with TENSILE (5)
The hull framework was composed of triangular duralumin girders, both in the longitudinal and transverse frames, while the bracing was carried out by means of high tensile steel wires and duralumin tubes.
Hickory 53 12,000 8,500 Oak 50 12,000 9,000 Ash 38 12,000 6,000 Walnut 38 8,000 6,000 Spruce 25 8,000 5,000 Pine 25 5,000 4,500 Considering the marked saving in weight spruce has a greater percentage of tensile strength than any of the other woods.
Brass (sheet) 510 23,000 12,000 Steel (tool) 490 100,000 40,000 Copper (sheet) 548 30,000 40,000 As extreme lightness, combined with strength, especially tensile strength, is the great essential in flying-machine construction, it can be readily seen that the use of metal, even aluminum, for the framework, is prohibited by its weight.
Subsidence or dislocation from tensile strain of the crust took place, and the influx of water to new regions of heated strata may have developed the explosive force.
The control chairs weren’t equipped with forcefields, but instead had incredibly primitive safety webs that held one in place by sheer tensile strength.
Quotes with TENSILE (3)
So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race. It is good that the old sh…
Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 51 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).