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EXTENSILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extensile mean?
• EXTENSILE (adjective)
The adjective EXTENSILE has 1 sense:
1. capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out
Familiarity information: EXTENSILE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out
Synonyms:
extensible; extensile
Context example:
an extensible measuring rule
Similar:
protractible; protractile (able to be extended)
protrusible; protrusile (capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue)
Antonym:
nonextensile (not extensile)
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