: the greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing apart
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The products themselves have robust clinical validation across the range, including a 419 percent increase in protein bonding strength, 46 percent improvement in internal hair density, 30 percent increase in tensile strength and 32 percent reduction in split ends.—James Manso, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026 Fuerst tests the tensile strength of the English Language in the same way Anthony Burgess does in A Clockwork Orange; the result is poetic, prescient, and terrifying.—Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for tensile strength