unstretched

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not stretched, extended, tightened, or pulled out of its natural shape

   The diagram compares the unstretched rubber sheet with the same sheet under tension.

Formed from un- ("not") + stretched, the past participle of stretch. Stretch descends from Old English streccan ("to stretch, extend"), from a Germanic base associated with straightness and extension.

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