A string is described as inextensible if it does not stretch. From LearnThat.org.
Taken to the extreme, that would mean it was inextensible beyond EverQuest. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Bartle Type] Reference
While ligaments are pliable and flexible, permitting free movement, they are also wonderfully strong and inextensible. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Unutterable. insinuate v. To imply. inextensible adj. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
They are pliant and flexible, so as to allow perfect freedom of movement, but strong, tough, and inextensible, so as not to yield readily to applied force. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. Introduction] Reference
However the arc-length definition is always related to the undeformed configuration (for which the length is known) and then saying that the rod is inextensible leads to obtain a unitary tangent on the deformed configuration. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
Otherwise, you end up with a very rigid and inextensible factory implementation, which, in addition, will force you to revisit it every time you add another special type to the system (and you should somehow know which types are special). From Wordnik.com. [MSDN: U.S. Local Highlights] Reference
After a cut on the face or an exudation into the lungs, the loose tissues and multiple vessels allow the proliferating cells to obtain rich nourishment; absorption can take place readily, and the part regains its normal condition entirely, while a bruise at the heel or at the withers finds a dense, inextensible tissue where the multiplying elements and exuded fluids choke up all communication, and the parts die. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
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