tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious

1. Stretched out; spread out.
2. Prolonged; continued.
3. Enlarged in influence, meaning, scope, effect, etc.; extensive.

1. The quality of being extensible.
2. The capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber.

Capable of being protruded, stretched, or opened out.

1. The act of extending or the condition of being extended.
2. The amount, degree, or range to which something extends or can extend.
3. The act of straightening or extending a limb or the position assumed by an extended limb.
4. In medicine, the application of traction to a fractured or dislocated limb to restore the normal position.
5. An addition that increases the area, influence, operation, or contents of something: "They built a new extension onto the hospital wing."
6. An additional telephone connected to a main line.
7. An allowance of extra time, as for the repayment of a debt or the period of this extra time: "We simply had to have a three months' extension on the loan."
8. The property of an object by which it occupies space.
9. A program in a university, college, or school that offers instruction, as by television or correspondence, to people unable to attend at the usual time or in the usual place.
10. In logic, the class of objects designated by a specific term or concept; a denotation.
11. In computer science, a set of characters that follow a filename and are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file: "In most operating systems, file names having the extension .EXE are executable files."

1. Having great extent; covering a large area; vast.
2. Having a wide scope, power, effect, influence, etc.; far-reaching; comprehensive.

1. An instrument for measuring minute degrees of deformation caused by tension, twisting, etc.
2. An instrument for measuring the deformation of metal under stress, or an instrument in which such deformation is used to register the elastic strains borne by other materials (e.g. concrete).

Any of various muscles that extend or straighten some part of the body; especially, a flexed arm or leg.

1. The space, amount, or degree to which a thing extends; size; length; breadth (to stretch out).
2. Range or limits of anything; scope; coverage.

1. Any abnormally high tension.
2. Abnormally high blood pressure, or a disease of which this is the chief sign.

Abnormally low blood pressure.