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Microtasimeter :: Microtasimeter (n.) A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter..

Prolongation :: Prolongation (n.) The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.

Canter :: Canter (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) To relax the tension of; to loosen.

Electrotonic :: Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

Diffusion :: Diffusion (n.) The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion..

Flexion :: Flexion (n.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

Terebene :: Terebene (n.) A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances..

Plain :: Plain (superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.

Stitch :: Stitch (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance..

Space :: Space (n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible..

Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.

Extendlessness :: Extendlessness (n.) Unlimited extension.

Methol :: Methol (n.) The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl..

Extensile :: Extensile (a.) Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible..

Shell :: Shell (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering..

Drugget :: Drugget (n.) By extension, any material used for the same purpose..

Coextension :: Coextension (n.) The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion..

Oil :: Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol..

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