"distensibility" meaning in English

See distensibility in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: distensibilities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} distensibility (countable and uncountable, plural distensibilities)
  1. Capability of swelling or stretching Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: hyperdistensibility
    Sense id: en-distensibility-en-noun-DhY55iuP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for distensibility meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "distensibilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "distensibility (countable and uncountable, plural distensibilities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "hyperdistensibility"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976 April 17, Dr. Reder, “To Your Health”, in Gay Community News, page 12",
          "text": "The major issue here is simply one of comparative size of the penetrating object (hand, wrist, forearm) to the size and distensibility of that which is being penetrated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capability of swelling or stretching"
      ],
      "id": "en-distensibility-en-noun-DhY55iuP",
      "links": [
        [
          "swell",
          "swell"
        ],
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "distensibility"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hyperdistensibility"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "distensibilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "distensibility (countable and uncountable, plural distensibilities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976 April 17, Dr. Reder, “To Your Health”, in Gay Community News, page 12",
          "text": "The major issue here is simply one of comparative size of the penetrating object (hand, wrist, forearm) to the size and distensibility of that which is being penetrated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capability of swelling or stretching"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swell",
          "swell"
        ],
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "distensibility"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.