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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to tensile force as affected by changes of temperature. Elaborate thermotensile experiments on iron and steel, especially with reference to boiler-iron, have been made, and their results tabulated, this being a matter of great practical importance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

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