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The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.countableuncountable
- Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
- Due to the unforeseen circumstances, you are allowed an extension of two weeks to complete the task.
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The state of being extended.countableuncountable
- 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 pro
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That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").countableuncountable
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A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.countableuncountable
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A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.countableuncountable
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A part of a building that has been added onto the original.countableuncountable
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An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.countableuncountable
- Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves
- My research is an extension of the work of my mentor.
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Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.countableuncountable
- 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.
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Semantic widening, broadening of meaning.countableuncountable
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A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.countableuncountable
syn. denotation
ant. shortening · limitation · curl