Extension

Noun

 * 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) That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
 * 3)  Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
 * 4)  A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
 * 5)  The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
 * 6)  An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
 * 7)  A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
 * 8)  A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
 * 9)  A file extension.
 * Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.

Synonyms

 * denotation

Antonyms

 * curl

Derived terms

 * extensional
 * extension cord
 * hair extension
 * hyperextension
 * leg extension
 * triceps extension
 * file extension
 * metaphorical extension

Related terms

 * extend
 * intension
 * comprehension

Adjectives for Extension
infinite; enormous; generous; ideal; dangerous; gradual; further; lateral; additional; international; widest.

Verbs for Extension
advocate —; check —; confine —; curtail —; grant —; justify —; influence —; limit;—; nip —; open —; permit —; plan —; plead for —; prevent —; regulate —; strangle —; terminate —; — accommodates; — eases.

Thesaurus
L, access, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acreage, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advance, affective meaning, aggrandizement, alternate, alternative school, ambit, ampliation, amplification, amplitude, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appreciation, appurtenance, appurtenant, area, arm, ascent, attachment, augment, augmentation, ballooning, bearing, bigness, blab school, bloating, block, boarding school, body, boom, boost, breadth, broadening, buildup, bulk, caliber, call box, capacity, central school, coda, coin telephone, coloring, coming after, compass, complement, comprehensiveness, concomitant, connotation, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, consolidated school, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuation school, continuing, continuity, continuum, corollary, correspondence school, country day school, coverage, crescendo, dame school, day school, denotation, deployment, depth, descent, desk telephone, development, dial telephone, diameter, dimension, dimensions, dispersion, distance, distension, drawing out, drift, edema, effect, elevation, ell, elongation, emptiness, empty space, endurance, enlargement, essence, evening school, expanse, expansion, extensiveness, extent, extrapolation, fanning out, field, finishing school, fixture, flare, flood, following, force, free school, gain, galactic space, gauge, girth, gist, grammatical meaning, greatening, greatness, growth, gush, height, hike, hiking, idea, impact, implication, import, increase, increment, infinite space, infinity, inflation, informal school, intension, interstellar space, jump, largeness, leap, length, lengthening, lengthiness, lexical meaning, line, lineage, linear measures, lingering, literal meaning, logical sequence, long time, longitude, longness, magnification, magnitude, maintenance, mass, meaning, measure, measurement, mileage, mounting, mouthpiece, multiplication, night school, nongraded school, nothingness, offshoot, open classroom school, orbit, order, order of succession, outer space, overall length, overtone, pay station, pendant, pensionat, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, pertinence, phone, pith, platoon school, point, posteriority, postposition, practical consequence, private school, procession, procrastination, production, productiveness, progress, progression, progressive school, proliferation, prolongation, proportion, proportions, protraction, public school, public telephone, purport, pursuance, purview, push-button telephone, radius, raise, raising, range, range of meaning, reach, real meaning, receiver, reference, referent, reinforcement, relation, relevance, repetition, rise, rotation, run, scale, school without walls, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, sequence, series, side effect, side issue, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, size, snowballing, space, span, span of meaning, spatial extension, special school, sphere, spirit, splay, spread, spreading, spreading out, staying power, storefront school, straight course, strain, street academy, stretch, stretching, stringing out, structural meaning, subjunction, substance, succession, successiveness, suffixation, sum, sum and substance, summer school, superficial extension, supplement, surface, surge, sustained action, sustenance, sweep, swelling, symbolic meaning, tailpiece, telephone, telephone booth, telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone mechanics, telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, tenor, tension, totality of associations, tract, transferred meaning, transmitter, tumescence, unadorned meaning, undergirding, undertone, uninterrupted course, union school, unremittingness, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vacation school, value, volume, wall telephone, waxing, way, widening, width, wing, yardage

Translations

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 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Persian: گستردن, گسترده شدن
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 * Dutch:


 * Japanese: 牽引


 * Finnish: ojennus, ojentaminen


 * Japanese: ストレッチ


 * German: Durchwahl
 * Irish: folíne


 * Japanese:


 * : extension


 * : extensión

Anagrams

 * in extenso

Noun

 * 1) extension