extension
- Noun. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
- Noun. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- Noun. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
- Noun. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- Noun. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- Noun. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- Noun. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- Noun. (telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- Noun. (computing) A file extension.
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