extension
Syllables: ex·ten·sion/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/
extension noun: the act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase. Also the ellipsis of file extension.
Noun
extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
- Due to the unforeseen circumstances, you are allowed an extension of two weeks to complete the task.
- 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
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves
- My research is an extension of the work of my mentor.
- Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced.2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC
- In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __...2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012
- Semantic widening, broadening of meaning.
- 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.
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- A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- Near-synonym: plugin
- a browser extension
- The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
Also used as
extension is also the ellipsis of file extension.
extension is also the clipping of hair extension.
extension is also the ellipsis of extension cord.
extension meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi
extension in Tamil
- act of extending or the state of being extended
- விரிவாக்கம் virivākkam, நீட்டிப்பு nīṭṭippu
extension in Telugu
- పొడిగింపు, ఎక్స్టెన్షన్
extension in Malayalam
- എക്സ്റ്റെൻഷൻ
extension in Punjabi
- ਐਕਸਟੈਂਸ਼ਨ
More languagesFewer languages
- extension in Odia
- ସମ୍ପ୍ରସାରଣ samprasāraṇa
- extension in Arabic
- تَمْدِيد tamdīd
- extension in Malay
- sambungan
- extension in Indonesian
- ekstensi
- extension in Persian
- گستردن gostardan, گسترده شدن
- extension in Vietnamese
- sự mở rộng, phần mở rộng, đuôi, tiện ích mở rộng
Examples of extension in a sentence
- In smaller communities, the public schools are virtual extensions of each town's chief religion — "educating" kids to all the prejudices of that belief.1978 December 9, Mitzel, “Post-Briggs Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 5:
- In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts.2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
Synonyms of extension
Antonyms
Forms of extension
| plural | extensions |
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Origin of extension
From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.
Words formed from extension
- agricultural extension
- algebraic extension
- back extension
- Buck's extension
- by extension
- coextension
- conservative extension
- convergent extension
- counterextension
- curb extension
- demarc extension
- extensional
- extension block
- extension cable
- extension cord
- extension field
- extensionist
- extension ladder
- extension lead
- extensionless
- extension reel
- Extension Scout
- extension table
- extensograph
- field extension
- file extension
- filename extension
- flexoextension
- flextension
- Galois extension
- hair extension
- horizontal extension
- hyperextension
- inextension
- Kan extension
- leg extension
- life extension
- metaphorical extension
- nonextension
- normal extension
- over-extension
- overextension
- penis extension
- postextension
- prototype extension
- separable extension
- simple extension
- superextension
- tiller extension
- triceps extension
- underextension
- under-extension
- university extension
- university extensional
Phrases with extension
- Park Extension
- extension cords
- extension leads
- extension reels
- Bamawm Extension
- extension blocks
- extension cables
- extension fields
- Extension Scouts
- extension tables
- Kayang Extension
- Lourdes Extension
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Questions about extension
- What does extension mean?
- Extension means the act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- What is extension in Tamil?
- Extension in Tamil is விரிவாக்கம் (virivākkam), நீட்டிப்பு (nīṭṭippu). See Extension meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use extension in a sentence?
- In smaller communities, the public schools are virtual extensions of each town's chief religion — "educating" kids to all the prejudices of that belief.
- What part of speech is extension?
- Extension is a noun.
- How do you pronounce extension?
- Extension is pronounced /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/.
- What is the plural of extension?
- The plural of extension is extensions.
Words near extension in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: extension (page history and authors); extension (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); extension (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); extension (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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