: the greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing apart
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The treatment does not compromise tensile strength and tends to improve the material’s flexibility, according to researchers.—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025 His narrative structure, too, contains tensile strength.—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2025 Indeed, the team's study, which appeared in Nature Communications this week, notes the bamboo plastic displays a tensile strength and work of fracture (force required to fracture a material) higher than that of traditional plastics.—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025 The glass fibers offer tensile strength, bound together by the resin, resulting in a flexible composite that is also very durable.—Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tensile strength
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