Ian Lustick

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

American Historian

Cheryl Hayashi

Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.

American Scientist

Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Italian Poet

Remember, tensile refers to stretching without breaking, not simply being elastic or returning to shape.

Not Elasticity

Tensile is often used in engineering, construction, and material science contexts.

Technical Term

Tensile strength implies safety, as materials unlikely to break can prevent accidents.

Indirect Safety

When tensile is used, it often highlights an object's ability to withstand intense pressure or damage.

Pressure Endurance

Tensile doesn't just mean hard or tough; it implies resistance to being pulled apart.

Not Just Hard

While 'durable' and 'sturdy' are synonyms, they don't capture the specific stretching aspect of 'tensile'.

Synonym Caution

 completely outside their body. This makes testing spider silk really, really easy to do in the laboratory, because we're actually, you know, testing it in air that's exactly the environment that spiders are using their silk proteins. So this makes quantifying silk properties by methods such as tensile testing, which is

Cheryl Hayashi: The...

 Finally, in the fourth stage of remodeling, the wound matures as the newly deposited collagen is rearranged and converted into specific types. Through this process, which can take over a year, the tensile strength of the new skin is improved, and blood vessels and other connections are strengthened.

How a wound heals itself...

 By tethering flying machines, they can achieve high speeds and accelerations in very tight spaces. They can also autonomously build tensile structures. Skills learned include how to carry loads, how to cope with disturbances, and in general, how to interact with the physical world.

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 And this happens across scales. The silkworm first attaches itself to the environment -- it creates a tensile structure -- and it then starts spinning a compressive cocoon. Tension and compression, the two forces of life, manifested in a single material.

Design at the...

 put a tensile structure on the top, and when the doctors have finished treating and seeing patients and villagers, you cut down the clinic and you eat it. It's an eat-your-own-clinic. So it's dealing with the fact that if you have AIDS,

Cameron Sinclair: A call...

 immediately bounced upward with its kill but the lioness decides that she has eyes for the prize and also bounds up the tree survival here can be a subtle game and this time the leopard has gauged the tensile strength of the tree

Big Cats: Leopard vs....

 Try getting that truck down the mountain. And it's it has the tensile strength of steel, the compressive strength of concrete. Slam four tons straight down on a pole, and it can take it. Because it's hollow, it's lightweight,

Magical houses, made of...

 is that it lacks some tensile strength. So, the possibility exists to simply externally wrap the pipe, and it would remain stable and operate quite happily. If your high-pressure hose pipe or hydraulic line bulges a little,

Tal Golesworthy: How I...

 gauged the tensile strength of the tree branches perfectly even though the lionesses inches from a juicy meal she knows that she's too heavy to climb any higher at last the leopard gets a well-earned meal in peace

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 As a result, wood lacked steel’s tensile strength or concrete’s compressive strength— each necessary to support tall buildings and battle the powerful winds found at high altitudes.