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Extension   /ɪkstˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Extension

noun
1.
A mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt.
2.
Act of expanding in scope; making more widely available.
3.
The spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions.  Synonym: propagation.
4.
An educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students.  Synonyms: extension service, university extension.
5.
Act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb.
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.  Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension.  "Most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS"
7.
The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to.  Synonyms: denotation, reference.
8.
The ability to raise the working leg high in the air.  "Good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability"
9.
Amount or degree or range to which something extends.  Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation.
10.
An additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line.  Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension.
11.
An addition to the length of something.  Synonym: elongation.
12.
An addition that extends a main building.  Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing.



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"Extension" Quotes from Famous Books



... the history of the word is contained in that cry of St. Augustine, Indocti surgunt et rapiunt coelum, or in the fervent sentence of the author of the Imitation, Oportet fieri stultum. And if there is a later silliness, altogether unblest, the skilful artificer of words, while accepting this last extension, will show himself conscious of his paradox. So also he will shun the grossness that employs the epithet "quaint" to put upon subtlety and the devices of a studied workmanship an imputation of eccentricity; or, if he falls in with the populace ...
— Style • Walter Raleigh
... so, Paul's grand words would shrink to a very poor conception of religion, which would then have its shrine and sphere removed from the sacred recesses of the inmost spirit to the dusty Babel of the market-place and the streets. But with that due and necessary extension of the words which results from the very nature of the case, that obedience must be the obedience of a man, and not of his deeds only, and must include the submission of the will and the prostration of the whole nature before Him; they teach a truth which, fully received ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... could we celebrate it without a home to set up a Christmas tree, or set out a table with good Jonesville vittles. How I thought on him who made a holiday in my heart by his presence, and always helped me put the leaves in the extension table. ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... actually to project a pure force of such a nature that it will react to de-heterodyne the blanketing frequency at any predetermined distance. That, of course, sets up a barrier against any frequency of the blanketed band. Incidentally, an extension of the same idea will enable us to see anywhere we want to look—calculate ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... your remembrance of me," observed Alfred. "This intelligence, however, will compel me to apply for an extension of my furlough, so that I may be enabled to find out where my wife and children are. I am very much alarmed at the ...
— The Trials of the Soldier's Wife - A Tale of the Second American Revolution • Alex St. Clair Abrams


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