What is "extendable"

Usage examples of "extendable".

By connecting brain synapses to special nodes, the intelligent child could manipulate a shell with extendable pseudopods that would allow it to move, manipulate tools or keyboards.

To confirm her hideous surmise, the double doors of one of the barns now opened and its inhabitants, comprised of the six-legged grazers and some other smaller and different types, were being herded to the abattoir by a curious mechanical which had long extendable ‘arms' and which spat electrical sparks at laggard beasts.

The extendable pressure dermic that occupied the place where a bird's tongue would be just missed making contact with his exploring fingers.

It was the biggest electric drill Lexy had ever seen, a glinting, gleaming steel beast mounted on an extendable suspension frame above a wheeled chassis.

With the familiarity of many such visits, his teams collected the samples of air and soil both inside and outside the facility, counted workers, checked to be sure none of them were sporting new macelike accessories in their extendables and returned to the Washington.

It had two oval matrixes that suggested compound eyes shaded by complicated delicate, extendable metal vanes, a pair of protruding concave surfaces that were probably soundwave collectors, and more openings and louvers about its lower face, possibly inlet/outlet ducts for coolant gas.