Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ultimate tensile strength

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables: ul-ti-mate ten-sile strength
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The greatest tensile engineering stress a material can withstand before it fractures.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

ultimate tensile strengths (plural) tensile strength (alternative)

Phrases

tensile strain

Frequently Paired Words

tensile strain compressive strength

Questions

What does ultimate tensile strength mean?: The greatest tensile engineering stress a material can withstand before it fractures.

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