Usually means: Strength of material under tension.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tensile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tensile: Merriam-Webster
  3. tensile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tensile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tensile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tensile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tensile, tensile: Wordnik
  8. tensile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tensile: Wiktionary
  10. tensile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tensile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tensile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tensile: Dictionary.com
  14. tensile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tensile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tensile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tensile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tensile: Rhymezone
  19. Tensile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tensile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tensile: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tensile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tensile: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tensile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tensile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tensile: Medical dictionary

(Note: See tensility as well.)

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adjective:  Of or pertaining to tension.
adjective:  Capable of being stretched; ductile.

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