extension

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   amount or degree or range to which something extends

   the wire has an extension of 50 feet

2. 2
   noun

   the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

   The dancers were praised for their uncanny extension.

3. 3
   noun

   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

4. 4
   noun

   The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.

   Next month the house is undergoing an extension.

5. 5
   noun

   The state of being extended.

   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 proper figure.

6. 6
   noun

   An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.

   Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves

7. 7
   noun

   Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   Ellipsis of file extension.

   Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.

Etymology

From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.