Abstract
IN a letter (NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 76) Mr. W. J. Ibbetson invites suggestions for a convenient abbreviation for “total or resultant pressure”; at the same time he suggests the adoption of “traction” for “intensity of tensile stress.” As it seems a pity to employ two totally distinct words to express such closely related ideas as intensity of tensile stress and total tensile stress, I would suggest that, on the analogy of pressure, “tensure” should be introduced for “intensity of tensile stress;” and then, on the analogy of “tension” for “total tensure,” “pression” for “total pressure.” New words are hard to grow in a language, but in this case pressure and tension might interchange their suffixes as grafts and yield two fresh useful words.
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