protractive

English

Etymology

From protract +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɹæktɪv/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -æktɪv

Adjective

protractive (comparative more protractive, superlative most protractive)

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing or delaying.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
  He suffered their protractive arts.
- 1970, Managing Human Behavior, page 100:
  In this case one half of the group had a contractive distraction imposed (decreasing work time) by a confederate; the other a protractive distraction (increasing work time).
- 1986, August W. Smith, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mental Images, Values, & Reality, page 88:
  Such a function could only be used in the protractive approach to evaluate different states of the system , for it does not necessarily specify an established point of convergency .
(linguistics) Indicating an action or state that is ongoing or sustained.
- 1979, Edward S. Klima, ‎Ursula Bellugi, The Signs of Language, page 292:
  One inflected form of the durative verb is made with a long tense hold and without motion; the nuance in meaning is the same as that of the protractive modulation of adjectival predicates and translates as 'to stare at (uninterruptedly)' (figure 12.15b).
- 1990, Harry Bornstein, Manual Communication: Implications for Education, page 88:
  The protractive, durational, and continuative morphemes are examples of nonpunctual modifications .
- 2008, Rafael Salaberry, Marking Past Tense in Second Language Acquisition, page 255:
  Fleischmann (1990:22), Sebastian and Slobin (1994: 257-8) also discuss the classivication of so-called aspectual verbs into inchative verbs (e.g. empezar, to start), protractive verbs ( e.g. , quedarse, to remain), cumulative verbs ( e.g., continuar, to continue) and and empletive verbs (e.g. acabar de, to finish)..
(zoology) Extending forward or projecting outward.
- 1888, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Volume 2788, page 34:
  Axial ribs not strongly protractive.
- 1943, United States National Museum, Bulletin - Issues 180-181, page 111:
  This keel on the first half of the last whorl consists of oblique, protractive strong short ridges, which on the last half disappear and give place to rough corrugations.
- 1993, Belgian Journal of Zoology - Volume 123, page 248:
  The horizontal component of the resultant muscular force is protractive during the closing stages,