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How To Use extensible In A Sentence

• an extensible measuring rule
• They are the eight or so Balaenoptera species of the mysticete family Balaenopteridae*, all of which open their jaws wide to engulf masses of prey and possess a highly distensible throat pouch and extensible longitudinal grooves on the throat and belly. Archive 2006-10-01
• Abstract Thick filaments are generally thought to be effectively inextensible.
• Most biological hydraulic skeletons are cylindrical and their walls are reinforced by relatively inextensible fibers (usually collagen or chitin in animals, and cellulose in plants).
• So one year later, in 1890, C.K. Welsh patented the design of a wheel rim with a lip and an outer inextensible cover.
• Now, as the humors are rather uncontrollable (_male terminabiles_) fluids, they flow towards the exterior and softer parts, like the flesh and skin, which receive their moisture and being soft, dilatable and extensible, there results some swelling. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
• The name deservedly implies the dynamic and integrated nature of the product and its extensible capability as it integrates with the Forefront Protection Suite. MSDN Blogs
• SKOS Core is a simple, flexible and extensible language for expressing in a machine-understandable form the structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, 'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept schemes embedded in glossaries and terminologies. SKOS Documents from the W3C
• His decision turned on this question of whether the product was inextensible, according to what appears on page 254.
• Unutterable. insinuate v. To imply. inextensible adj. Recently Uploaded Slideshows