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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



... in an honest and industrious obscurity limited to themselves all their father's notoriety. Like the son of Cromwell, they preferred the shade and silence the more, as their name had a too sinister reputation, and too wide an extension in the world. They remained unmarried, that the name might die ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... people joined their prayers; York was noted as especially enthusiastic in the cause, and many there took to living in tents as a kind of training for the conflict which was coming. The Normans understood at the time that there were two reasons for this determination to resist by force any further extension of William's rule. One was, the personal dissatisfaction of Earl Edwin. He had been given by William some undefined authority, and promoted above his brother, and he had even been promised a daughter of the king's ...
— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams
... now inquire further what extension of time for graduating characterizes the failing graduates in comparison with ...
— The High School Failures - A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or - Commercial High School Subjects • Francis P. Obrien
... but the receivers, which by the aid of an extension he brought down with him, he made his way to his seat and ...
— Curlie Carson Listens In • Roy J. Snell
... so far as necessary, the chief laws that are constantly working the extension of the domain of the supernatural as far as demonology is concerned, without a remembrance of which the subject itself would remain somewhat difficult to comprehend fully, I shall now attempt to indicate one or two conditions of thought and circumstance that may have tended to increase and ...
— Elizabethan Demonology • Thomas Alfred Spalding


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