: the greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing apart
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This weakness often leads to cracking under bending or stretching forces, which is why steel reinforcement is used to provide tensile strength (the amount of stress a material can take before breaking).—Carol Cain, Freep.com, 3 July 2025 Chinese spinners, the FAS said, consider their fibers of comparable (in the case of Australia) or improving (Brazil) quality in key performance indicators such as fiber length, tensile strength per unit linear density and grade level.—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 May 2025 The final product has 50 percent more tensile strength than steel and a strength-to-weight ratio 10 times greater.—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025 Exterior Grappling dummies are usually composed of materials with great tensile strength, like leather, synthetic blends and canvas.—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tensile strength
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