n.

a large and unbroken expanse or distance

"a stretch of highway"; "a stretch of clear water"

the act of physically reaching or thrusting out

同義詞：reachreaching

a straightaway section of a racetrack

exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

同義詞：stretching

extension to or beyond the ordinary limit

"running at full stretch"; "by no stretch of the imagination"; "beyond any stretch of his understanding"

an unbroken period of time during which you do something

"there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

同義詞：stint

the capacity for being stretched

同義詞：stretchinessstretchability

Airway Smooth Muscle, Tidal Stretches, and Dynamically Determined Contractile States
The Ownership Effect in Consumer Responses to Brand Line Stretches
Short amino acid stretches can mediate amyloid formation in globular proteins: the Src homology 3 (SH3) case
Expanded polyglutamine stretches interact with TAFII130, interfering with CREB-dependent transcription.
Steroid estrogens profiles along river stretches arising from sewage treatment works discharges.
Injury to muscle fibres after single stretches of passive and maximally stimulated muscles in mice
Quasi-incompressible finite elasticity in principal stretches. Continuum basis and numerical algorithms
Transcriptional activation modulated by homopolymeric glutamine and proline stretches.
Color enhancement of highly correlated images. I. Decorrelation and HSI contrast stretches
Contraction-induced injury to single fiber segments from fast and slow muscles of rats by single stretches.