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Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible. Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible. Bacon.

Capable of being distended or dilated.

Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.

Extensibility.

Not capable of being extended; not elastic; as, inextensible fibers.

clared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim. D. Ramsay.

by means of lenses. thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back or an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.

The quality or capacity of being distensible. [R.]

The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

The quality or state of being ostensible.

In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently. Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise. They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext of service and kindness. L'Estrange. With how much or how little pretext of reason. Dr. H. More.

Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.

True; genuine; not artificial; counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger. Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity. Milton.

The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.

Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. Bacon.

a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by intensible gradations.

Volute spiring, a spring formed of a spiral scroll of plate, rod, or wire, extended or extensible in the direction of the axis of the coil, in which direction its elastic force is exerted and employed.