tensility
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tensility (countable and uncountable, plural tensilities)
- The quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).
- 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:
- the tensility of the muscles
- 2005, Valeria Matranga, Echinodermata:
- 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.
References[edit]
- “tensility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.