Definitions for extension

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extension ex·ten·sion

Spelling: [ik-sten-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪkˈstɛn ʃən/

Extension is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in extension (eeinnostx).

Definitions for extension

noun

1. an act or instance of extending, lengthening, stretching out, or enlarging the scope of something.
2. the state of being extended, lengthened, or stretched out.
3. that by which something is extended or enlarged; an addition:
4. an additional period of time given one to meet an obligation:
5. something that is expandable or can be extended; an extended object:
6. range or scope of extending; degree of extensiveness; extent:
7. an additional telephone that operates on the principal line.
8. Commerce. a written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
9. Physics. that property of a body by which it occupies space.
10. Anatomy. the act of straightening a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is straightened.
11. Surgery. the act of pulling the broken or dislocated part of a limb in a direction from the trunk, in order to bring the ends of the bone into their natural situation.
12. Also called extent. Logic. the class of things to which a term is applicable, as “the class of such beings as Plato and Alexander” to which the term “man” is applicable. Compare intension (def 5).
13. Mathematics. a function having a domain that includes the domain of a given function and that has the same value as the given function at each point in the domain of the given function.
14. Also called file extension. Computers. one or more characters at the end of a filename, usually following a period, used to indicate the type of file.
15. Manège. the act of bringing or coming into an extended attitude.

adjective

1. of or relating to extension courses.

Origin of extension

1350-1400; Middle English Latin extēnsiōn- (stem of extēnsiō). See extensive, -ion

Examples for extension

What he meant was that he personally, and by extension all Christians, should not be judgmental.

He carried an extension cord in case he needed to recharge at one of his emergency spots.

The complexity of life is shown by the extension of the necessity of choice.

They are 'other,' newly visible, and symbols of the social and, by extension, economic changes in society and in New York.

It is also, by extension, a show about the cultural impact of religion.

I expect the Marchesa got him an extension of leave from the Colonel.

In recent years an extension of nine miles has been added to it.

The North did not believe in slavery, or at least in the extension of slavery.

But only for the family; inmates cannot be awarded more than $10,000 because of an  extension of the Son of Sam Law.

In larger boats the jib-boom is an extension of the bowsprit.