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tensility

noun

Etymology

From tensile + -ity.

  1. borrowed from tēnsilis
  2. suffixed as tensility — “tensile + ity”

Definitions

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

    • the tensility of the muscles
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA