extension

English Online Dictionary. What means extension‎? What does extension mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, /ɛkˈstɛnʃən/
• Hyphenation: ex‧ten‧sion

Noun

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

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

2. The state of being extended.
3. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
4. A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
5. An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
7. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
8. (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
9. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
10. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
11. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
12. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
13. (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
15. (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
16. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.

17. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
18. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
19. (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
20. (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.

Synonyms

• (semantics): denotation

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “act of extending”): shortening
• (antonym(s) of “broadening of meaning”): limitation
• (antonym(s) of “exercise”): curl

Derived terms

Related terms

• extend (verb)
• extense
• extent
• (semantics): intension
• (semantics): comprehension

Translations

See also

• flexion

Anagrams

• in extenso

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English extension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ekstenʃən/
• Hyphenation: ex‧ten‧sion

Noun

extension

1. (colloquial) extension cord (electrical cord with multi-port socket)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French estension, borrowed from Latin extentiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

Noun

extension f (plural extensions)

1. extension
2. (semantics, linguistics) semantic widening

Derived terms

• module d’extension

Related terms

• étendre

Further reading

• “extension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.