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Extension   /ɪkstˈɛnʃən/   Listen
noun
Extension  n.  
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.
(Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
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. "The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension." "The extension of (the term) plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects."
4.
(Surg.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
5.
(Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
6.
(Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
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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"Extension" Quotes from Famous Books



... called the inventor of the Post-office, although to him may be attributed the extension of the system. The first inland letter office, which, however, extended to some of the principal roads only, was established by Charles I. in 1635, under the direction of Thomas Witherings, who was superseded ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 • Various

... be linked to the past by piety. We owe it to him to clothe tradition in the forms most practical and most fit to create a deep impression: whence the exceptional place that should be given in education to the ancients, to the cult of remembrance of the past, and by extension, to the history of the domestic rooftree. Above all do we fulfil a duty toward our children when we give the place of honor to the grandparents. Nothing speaks to a child with so much force, or so well develops ...
— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner

... Freedmen's Bureau, aided by the negro soldiers and white emissaries, had filled the minds of the credulous ex-slaves with false impressions of the new and glorious condition that lay before them. Then, with the extension of the Bureau and spread of the army posts, many of the negroes became idle, neglected the crops planted in the spring, and moved from their old homes to the towns or wandered ...
— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head

... he completely revolved. It appears, from the testimony of Mr. Froude, that the result of the Reform Bill of 1832 disappointed him in merely shifting power from the owners of land to the owners of shops, and leaving the handicraftsmen and his own peasant class no better off. Before a further extension became a point of practical politics he had arrived at the conviction that the ascertainment of truth and the election of the fittest did not lie with majorities. These sentences of 1835 represent a ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol

... Poo-tay-toes! Bread Sau-ce!" On and on through mince pies, sweets, cakes, and fruits, went the monotonous chant, the Maluka and the missus standing gravely at attention, until a triumphant paeon of "Plum-m-m Poo-dinn!" soared upwards as Cheon waddled off through the decorated verandah extension ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn


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