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extensible, a.|ɛkˈstɛnsɪb(ə)l|
[a. Fr. extensible, ad. L. *extensibil-is, f. extens- ppl. stem of extendĕre to extend.]
1. Of a material object:
a. Capable of being extended in any dimension or direction.
b. Capable of being protruded; = extensile 2.
1611Cotgr., Extensible, extensible; which may be extended, or drawne out in length. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1669Holder Speech 163 The Malleus, being fixed to an extensible Membrane, follows the Traction of the Muscle, and is drawn inwards. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. xiii. 200 This perfect Metal..extensible like unto Gold. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 161 An artery is an extensible, elastic tube. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 87 Lips extremely long and extensible. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 148/1 The skin is more pliant and extensible. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 796 A layer of tissue..so extremely extensible.
fig.1871tr. Lange's Comm. Jerem. 138 Our patience and steadfastness are as elastic and extensible as our faith is firm.
2. Of an immaterial object: Capable of being enlarged in scope or meaning.
1654Hammond Answ. Animadv. Ignat. iii. §4. 76 If Lombard's words should..be thought farther extensible. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xiv. 87 And that Love is blind, is extensible beyond the object of Poetry. 1755in Johnson. 1775in Ash. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 20 A system which is extensible to everything short of infinity. 1890Spectator 18 Jan., Italy..has acquired..an indefinite but extensible protectorate over Abyssinia.
Hence exˈtensibleness, the quality of being extensible; extensibility.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1755 in Johnson. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xvii. 601 There is no contradiction between finite extent, and infinite extensibleness.
▸ Extensible Markup Language n. Computing = XML n. at X n. Additions.
1996Series of Releases on SGML '96 in comp.text.sgml (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Oct. The W3C SGML Working Group will report on the status of XML, *eXtensible Markup Language, on Tuesday morning. 1998Industry Standard 8 June 26/3 A next-generation standard called Extensible Markup Language (XML) should make it easier to automate Web transactions, although XML is still in its infancy. 2000N.Y. Times 1 Jan. c2/2 Some say it [sc. Hypertext Markup Language] is now being edged out by XML, or extensible Markup Language. |