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What does protractive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word protractive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
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Examples
In addition the time-scale could prove to be very protractive indeed.
Similarly, the arms that connect the palatal TADs to the acrylic pads of the hybrid MARPE may have flexed under the protractive effect of the Class III elastics, allowing for proclination of the maxillary incisors.
The 32-year-old Scot ended protractive talks with the League Two club by signing a two-year contract.
It would require a sudden transformation of forelimbs from a retractive, terrestrial, weight-bearing stroke to a depressive, protractive, aerial, thrust-generating stroke.

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