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ext.

ext. is the abbreviation of extension.

ext. is the abbreviation of extract.

ext. is the abbreviation of exterior.

ext. is the abbreviation of external.

ext. is the abbreviation of extant.

Meaning of extension

Noun

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

  1. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
    • Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
  2. The state of being extended.
    • For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  3. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
  4. A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
  5. (homological algebra) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
  6. A part of a building that has been added onto the original.

See all 19 meanings of extension

Meaning of extract

Noun

extract (plural extracts)

  1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
    Synonyms:
    extraction
  2. A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
    • I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
  3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
    • vanilla extract
  4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
    • quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
  5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
  6. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

See all 13 meanings of extract

Forms of ext.

pluralexts.

Questions about ext.

What is ext. the abbreviation of?
Ext. is the abbreviation of extension.

Words near ext. in the dictionary

  1. exsuscitate
  2. exsuscitates
  3. exsuscitation
  4. exsymbiotic
  5. ext
  6. ext.
  7. extacy
  8. extance
  9. extances
  10. extancies
  11. extancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ext. (page history and authors); extension (page history and authors); extract (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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