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tensility en · NOUN

Etymology

From tensile + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).
   • 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:
   • 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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