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

Wiesner denies in certain cases the accuracy of De Vries' conclusion about turgescence, and maintains*** that the increased extensibility of the cell-walls is the more important element.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles