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UK
/ɛkstˈɛnʃən/
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[ US /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
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the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability
the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension - an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
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amount or degree or range to which something extends
the wire has an extension of 50 feet - an addition that extends a main building
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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 - an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
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act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
extension of the program to all in need -
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 - an addition to the length of something
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a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more 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
How To Use extension In A Sentence
- The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space. Times, Sunday Times
- And there are a lot of so-called federalists, people who are just generally opposed to the extension of federal power and who object, who say look, this is the same thing that we objected to when liberals did it. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005
- Overextension in the lower back results in this 'duck-like' posture. Times, Sunday Times
- They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
- If I ever use these features at all, I want them optional, totally attachable/detachable .... extensions I mean. Firefox 3.5 Gets Geolocation, Powered By Google | Lifehacker Australia
- Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
- Station improvements are being considered for Shenfield while Gidea Park, Harold Wood and Brentwood are in line for platform extensions and station revamps.
- The Orangery restaurant is not as gorgeous as the rest of the house, partly because it is in a modern extension, but mainly because it is unattractively lit.
- The cathedral is the former Perpendicular parish church, reconstructed in 1880, with further extensions completed in 1966.
- The same mythologem is also active in Dylan's opus, where - with the inclusion of the deepest part of the psyche - came to the repetition and extension of the transformation process, explicitly expressed in Dylan's song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" from 1966: Expecting Rain
