Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unextended; without extension.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not extended.

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  • adjective Not extended.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ extended

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Examples

  • This third part of the argument is rather badly put but it seems to run something like this: suppose there is a plurality, so some spatially extended object exists (after all, he's just argued that inextended things do not exist).

    Zeno's Paradoxes Huggett, Nick 2004

  • "In this theory," according to an early commentator, "the whole mass of which the bodies of the universe are composed is supposed to consist of an exceedingly great yet finite number of simple, indivisible, inextended atoms.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

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