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词汇 tensile
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tensile adj.

1620s, "stretchable," from Modern Latin tensilis "capable of being stretched," from Latin tensus, past participle of tendere "to stretch," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." Meaning "pertaining to tension" is from 1841.

updated on April 17, 2017

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