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Definition of "inextensible" []

  • Not extensible: an inextensible antenna. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "inextensible" in a sentence
  • "Taken to the extreme, that would mean it was inextensible beyond EverQuest."
  • "While ligaments are pliable and flexible, permitting free movement, they are also wonderfully strong and inextensible."
  • "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."
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