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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The resistance of a material to a force tending to tear it apart, measured as the maximum tension the material can withstand without tearing.
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- noun The
resistance of a material tolongitudinal stress (tension ); a measure of theforce required topull it apart
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart
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