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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not extensible.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That cannot be stretched; not extensible: applied in geometry to a surface which can be bent in any way, but only so that each element remains unchanged in magnitude and shape.

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

  • adjective Not capable of being extended; not elastic.

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  • adjective Not capable of being extended.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not extensile

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Examples

  • Taken to the extreme, that would mean it was inextensible beyond EverQuest.

    The Hidden Bartle Type 2007

  • While ligaments are pliable and flexible, permitting free movement, they are also wonderfully strong and inextensible.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • They are pliant and flexible, so as to allow perfect freedom of movement, but strong, tough, and inextensible, so as not to yield readily to applied force.

    III. Syndesmology. Introduction 1918

  • After a cut on the face or an exudation into the lungs, the loose tissues and multiple vessels allow the proliferating cells to obtain rich nourishment; absorption can take place readily, and the part regains its normal condition entirely, while a bruise at the heel or at the withers finds a dense, inextensible tissue where the multiplying elements and exuded fluids choke up all communication, and the parts die

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Otherwise, you end up with a very rigid and inextensible factory implementation, which, in addition, will force you to revisit it every time you add another special type to the system (and you should somehow know which types are special).

    MSDN: U.S. Local Highlights 2009

  • However the arc-length definition is always related to the undeformed configuration (for which the length is known) and then saying that the rod is inextensible leads to obtain a unitary tangent on the deformed configuration.

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

  • Unutterable. insinuate v. To imply. inextensible adj.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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