extension

noun extensions

1. countable, uncountable The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase. Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
2. countable, uncountable 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.
3. countable, uncountable That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
4. countable, uncountable A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
5. countable, uncountable A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
6. countable, uncountable A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
7. countable, uncountable An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities. Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves
8. countable, uncountable 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.
9. countable, uncountable Semantic widening, broadening of meaning.
10. countable, uncountable A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
11. countable, uncountable The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
12. countable, uncountable An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
13. countable, uncountable A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
14. countable, uncountable A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
15. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of file extension.file extension Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
16. countable, uncountable An optional software component that adds functionality to an application. Near-synonym: plugin
17. countable, uncountable The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
18. countable, uncountable A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
19. countable, uncountable The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
20. countable, uncountable University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
21. abbreviation, clipping, countable, in plural, uncountable Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.hair extension
22. Philippines, abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of extension cord.extension cord

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