extensibility

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Stiffness and extensibility -- how far a material can stretch or expand without breaking -- are linked because they originate from the same building block: the polymer strands connected by crosslinks.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

With pizza dough, for instance, extensibility must be high to stretch a ball of dough into a thin, crisp crust that retains enough structure to stand up to wet, heavy toppings.

From New York Times • May 3, 2021

Chrome really lead the way to the new paradigm of how to do extensibility correctly.

From The Verge • Oct. 17, 2015

Muscle tissue also has the quality of extensibility; it can stretch or extend.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Some rodents are fitted to flit through the air in long jumps, by means of the wide extensibility of the skin of their flanks, which, when stretched out, acts as a parachute.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various