Definition of Tensilely

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tensilely

tensenesses
tenser
tenses
tensest
tensibility
tensible
tensibly
tenside
tensides
tensies
tensile
tensile strain
tensile strength
tensile stress
tensiled
tensilely (current term)
tensilities
tensility
tensimeter
tensimeters
tensin
tensing
tensio active
tensiometer
tensiometers
tensiometric
tensiometries
tensiometry
tension
tension curve

Literary usage of Tensilely

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson (1918)
"Howe f has shown that the ball hardness of a tensilely overstrained steel bar is increased in all directions, in other words, that the effects of simple ..."

2. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey (1919)
"Howe f has shown that the ball hardness of a tensilely overstrained steel bar is increased in all directions, in other words, that the effects of simple ..."

3. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1916)
"From the standpoint of his theory, however, they become necessary to confer stability on the tensilely stressed transpiration stream. ..."

4. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon (1874)
"It is tensilely strained when a stretching force is similarly applied to it in the direction of its fibres. Ropes, cables, king-posts, tie-beams, ..."

5. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"... setting them side by side, to strain them tensilely and equally, the pearlite would clearly break long before the existing extension had exhausted the ..."

6. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"... setting them side by side, to strain them tensilely and equally, the pearlite would clearly break long before the existing extension had exhausted the ..."

7. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"Instances of weakness, both transversely and tensilely, similar to those which are given in Table IX., are not unfrequent, and may occur, as before stated, ..."

8. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"Tables XXXII. and XXXIII. show that the Dantzic Oak, when tested transversely, or tensilely, is of moderate strength; and,according to Table XXXIV.,when ..."

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