tensible

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  1. Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile. Gold … is the closest (and therefore the heaviest) of metals, and is likewise the most flexible and tensible. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 327.

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  1. = Spanish tensible, from Middle Latin tensibilis, that can be stretched, from Latin tendere, past participle tensus, stretch: see tend, tense.
 

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