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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
extension
n 1: a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion
of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an
extension of the loan"
2: act of expanding in scope; making more widely available;
"extension of the program to all in need"
3: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new
regions [syn: propagation, extension]
4: an educational opportunity provided by colleges and
universities to people who are not enrolled as regular
students [syn: extension, extension service, university
extension]
5: act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb [ant:
flexion, flexure]
6: a string of characters beginning with a period and followed
by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC
computer filename; "most applications provide extensions for
the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the filename
extension .BAS" [syn: extension, filename extension,
file name extension]
7: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression;
the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the
extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only
Demos and Phobos" [syn: reference, denotation,
extension]
8: the ability to raise the working leg high in the air; "the
dancer was praised for her uncanny extension"; "good
extension comes from a combination of training and native
ability"
9: amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the
wire has an extension of 50 feet" [syn: extension,
lengthiness, prolongation]
10: an additional telephone set that is connected to the same
telephone line [syn: extension, telephone extension,
extension phone]
11: an addition to the length of something [syn: elongation,
extension]
12: an addition that extends a main building [syn: annex,
annexe, extension, wing]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Extension \Ex*ten"sion\, n. [L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See
Extend, v. t.]
1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a
stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of
length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
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2. (Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a
portion of space.
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3. (Logic & Metaph.)
(a) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a
greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative
of intension.
(b) the class or set of objects to which a term refers; --
contrasted with intension, the logical specification
which defines members of a class, being the set of
attributes which are necessary and sufficient to
recognize an object as a member of the class.
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The law is that the intension of our knowledge
is in the inverse ratio of its extension. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
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The extension of [the term] plant is greater
than that of geranium, because it includes more
objects. --Abp.
Thomson.
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4. (Surg.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to
bring the fragments into the same straight line.
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5. (Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction
from flexion.
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6. (Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor,
allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
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Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter.
Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily
extended or contracted in length.
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3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
extension
1. extension> filename extension.
2. A feature or piece of code which
extends a program's functionality, e.g. a plug-in.
(1997-06-21)
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
EXTENSION, comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an
agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in
order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve
his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their
several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand
payment.
2. Among the French, a similar agreement is known by the name of
atermoiement. Merl. Rep. mot Atermoiement.
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Thesaurus Results for extension:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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