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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Extension \Ex*ten"sion\, n. [L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See
Extend, v. t.]
1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a
stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of
length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
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2. (Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a
portion of space.
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3. (Logic & Metaph.)
(a) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a
greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative
of intension.
(b) the class or set of objects to which a term refers; --
contrasted with intension, the logical specification
which defines members of a class, being the set of
attributes which are necessary and sufficient to
recognize an object as a member of the class.
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The law is that the intension of our knowledge
is in the inverse ratio of its extension. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
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The extension of [the term] plant is greater
than that of geranium, because it includes more
objects. --Abp.
Thomson.
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4. (Surg.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to
bring the fragments into the same straight line.
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5. (Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction
from flexion.
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6. (Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor,
allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
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Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter.

Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily
extended or contracted in length.
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WordNet Extension
n 1: a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion
of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an
extension of the loan"
2: act of expanding in scope; making more widely available;
"extension of the program to all in need"
3: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new
regions [syn: propagation]
4: an educational opportunity provided by colleges and
universities to people who not enrolled as regular
students [syn: extension service, university extension]
5: act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb [ant: flexion]
6: a string of characters beginning with a period and followed
by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC
computer filename; "most applications provide extensions
for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the
filename extension .BAS" [syn: filename extension, {file
name extension}]
7: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression;
the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the
extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing
only Demos and Phobos" [syn: reference, denotation]
8: the ability to raise the working leg high in the air; "the
dancer was praised for her uncanny extension"; "good
extension comes from a combination of training and native
ability"
9: amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the
wire has an extension of 50 feet" [syn: lengthiness, prolongation]
10: an additional telephone set that is connected to the same
telephone line [syn: telephone extension, {extension
phone}]
11: an addition to the length of something [syn: elongation]
12: an addition that extends a main building [syn: annex, annexe,
wing]

Moby Dictionary
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

FOLDOC extension

1. filename extension.

2. A feature or piece of code which
extends a program's functionality, e.g. a plug-in.

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EXTENSION, comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment. 2. Among the French, a similar agreement is known by the name of atermoiement. Merl. Rep. mot Atermoiement.

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