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extension

/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/

noun

Meaning

  • The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth; an increase

  • The state of being extended

  • That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")

  • A part of a building that has been extended from the original

  • Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

  • A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

  • The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

  • An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.

  • A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.

  • A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.

  • A file extension.

    "Files with the .txt extension usually contain text."

  • An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.

    "a browser extension"

  • The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.

  • (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.

Synonyms

denotation