An extension is the act of getting more time, space, or length, like an extension of a deadline that gives you one more day to turn in a paper, or extensions that make your hair look longer.
The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
Noun
act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need"
Noun
act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
Noun
an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who not enrolled as regular students
Noun
an addition that extends a main building
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an addition to the length of something
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an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
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amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the wire has an extension of 50 feet"
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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"
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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"
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the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
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a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three 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"
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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"
v. t.
The act of extending or the state of being extended;
a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length;
increase; augmentation; expansion.
v. t.
That property of a body by which it occupies a
portion of space.
v. t.
Capacity of a concept or general term to include a
greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
v. t.
The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to
bring the fragments into the same straight line.
v. t.
The straightening of a limb, in distinction from
flexion.
v. t.
A written engagement on the part of a creditor,
allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
Extension
The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects.4.
The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
Usage Examples
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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Other Usage ExamplesLove is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.
I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
I see technology as being an extension of the human body.
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
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