tensile
1. of or relating to tension - tensile stress - tensile pull • Pertains to noun: tension 2. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out - ductile copper - malleable metals such as gold - they soaked the leather to made it pliable - pliant molten glass - made of highly tensile steel alloy • Syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tractile • Similar to: formed • Derivationally related forms: pliantness (for: pliant), pliancy (for: pliant), pliability (for: pliable), malleability (for: malleable), ductility (for: ductile)
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