| angiotensin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotonin, Hypertensin |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| coextension | (noun) equality of extension or duration | - |
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| distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
| extension | (noun) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students | Synonyms: extension service, university extension |
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| (noun) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb | - |
| (noun) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing |
| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: elongation |
| (noun) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line | Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension |
| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation |
| (noun) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air | - |
| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, reference |
| (noun) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename | Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension |
| (noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: propagation |
| (noun) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt | - |
| extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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| extensor | (noun) a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part | Synonyms: extensor muscle |
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| hortensia | (noun) deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue | Synonyms: Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis |
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| (noun) very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads | Synonyms: double gold, golden glow, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia |
| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| hypertension | (noun) a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) | Synonyms: high blood pressure |
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| hypertensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypotension | (noun) abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| hypotensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| intension | (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: connotation |
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| intensity | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensiveness |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, saturation, vividness |
| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: loudness, volume |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity level, strength |
| intensive | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensifier |
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| intensiveness | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensity |
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| martensite | (noun) a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel | - |
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| ostensibility | (noun) The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real. | - |
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| ostensorium | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: monstrance |
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| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| rottenstone | (noun) a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing | Synonyms: tripoli |
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| tense | (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
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| tenseness | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tension, tensity |
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| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tension |
| tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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| tensiometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil | - |
| tension | (noun) the action of stretching something tight | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body | - |
| (noun) feelings of hostility that are not manifest | Synonyms: latent hostility |
| (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| (noun) a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tenseness |
| tensity | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tension |
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| tensor | (noun) any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm | - |
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| (noun) a generalization of the concept of a vector | - |
| utensil | (noun) an implement for practical use (especially in a household) | - |
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