extension
See also: extensión
English
Etymology
From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, /ɛkˈstɛnʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ex‧ten‧sion
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
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- 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.
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- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
- A part of a building that has been extended from the original
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 2012-07-15:
- 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 __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) A file extension.
- Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- a browser extension
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
Synonyms
- (semantics): denotation
Antonyms
- (act of extending): shortening
- (exercise): curl
Derived terms
- algebraic extension
- Buck's extension
- by extension
- conservative extension
- convergent extension
- curb extension
- demarc extension
- extension block
- extension cable
- extension cord
- extension field
- extension ladder
- extension lead
- extensionless
- extension reel
- Extension Scout
- extension table
- field extension
- file extension
- filename extension
- Galois extension
- hair extension
- hyperextension
- Kan extension
- leg extension
- life extension
- metaphorical extension
- normal extension
- overextension
- over-extension
- penis extension
- prototype extension
- separable extension
- simple extension
- tiller extension
- triceps extension
- under-extension
- underextension
- university extension
- university extensional
Related terms
- extend (verb)
- extense
- extent
- (semantics): intension
- (semantics): comprehension
Translations
act of extending or the state of being extended
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anatomy: that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space
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part of a building that has been added to the original
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semantics: capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects
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semantics: semantic widening
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finance: written engagement on the part of a creditor
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medicine: operation of stretching a broken bone
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weightlifting: an exercise
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fencing: a simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward
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telecommunication: phone extension number
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computing: file extension
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computing: optional software component
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See also
- flexion
Anagrams
- in extenso
Brunei Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from English extension.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ekstenʃən/
- Hyphenation: ex‧ten‧sion
Noun
extension
- (colloquial) extension cord (electrical cord with multi-port socket)
French
Etymology
From Old French estension, borrowed from Latin extentiō, extentiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.stɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
extension f (plural extensions)
- extension
- (semantics, linguistics) semantic widening
Derived terms
- module d'extension
Related terms
- étendre
Further reading
- “extension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.