tensility

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English

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Etymology

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From tensile +‎ -ity.

Noun

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tensility (countable and uncountable, plural tensilities)

  1. 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.

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