Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being extended or protruded.
- adjective Computers Of or relating to a programming language or a system that can be modified by changing or adding features.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being extended; admitting of being stretched in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement or expansion.
- In zoology, capable of being thrust out; extensile; protrusile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of
contractible orcompressible .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
extended .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out
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"The software is extensible, that is what I like," he says.
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"The software is extensible, that is what I like," he says.
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A graphical user interface for displaying hierarchical data, such as extensible markup language (XML) data, in hypertext markup language (HTML) format in a convenient and efficient manner.
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It's very extensible, meaning you can download all sorts of very useful and often fun add-ons to add functionality to the base browser.
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It's very extensible, meaning you can download all sorts of very useful and often fun add-ons to add functionality to the base browser.
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It's very extensible, meaning you can download all sorts of very useful and often fun add-ons to add functionality to the base browser.
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FORTH: This was a interesting language described as "extensible".
The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Languages, Continued 1992
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Microsoft is hinting at a sort of "extensible" framework, where developers might be able to augment these task hubs instead of compete with them.
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Microsoft is hinting at a sort of "extensible" framework, where developers might be able to augment these task hubs instead of compete with them.
Engadget Mobile Nilay Patel 2010
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It's called an "extensible" markup language because anyone can invent a particular set of markup for a particular purpose and as long as everyone uses it (the writer and an application program at the receiver's end), it can be adapted and used for many purposes - including, as it happens, describing the appearance of a Web page.
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