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noun

Extension n.

1.

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

2.

(Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.

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. "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.

(Surg.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

5.

(Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.

6.

(Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

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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Etymology of 'Extension'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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