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Meaning of Extension | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ɪkˈstɛnʃən

Definitions

  1. Extend or extend.
  2. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Dilatation.
  4. The state of being extended.
    countable, uncountable
  5. Erection of a part that before was fall or bent on himself same.
  6. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
    countable, uncountable
  7. A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
    countable, uncountable
  8. A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
    countable, uncountable
  9. A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
    countable, uncountable
  10. An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
    countable, uncountable
  11. Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
    countable, uncountable
  12. semantic widening, broadening of meaning
    countable, uncountable
  13. A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
    countable, uncountable
  14. The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
    countable, uncountable
  15. An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
    countable, uncountable
  16. A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
    countable, uncountable
  17. A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
    countable, uncountable
  18. Ellipsis of file extension.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  19. An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
    countable, uncountable
  20. The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
    countable, uncountable
  21. A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
    countable, uncountable
  22. The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
    countable, uncountable
  23. University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
    countable, uncountable
  24. Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, in-plural, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”
“"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.”
“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.”
“Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves”
“My research is an extension of the work of my mentor.”
“In smaller communities, the public schools are virtual extensions of each town's chief religion — "educating" kids to all the prejudices of that belief.”
“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.”
“In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.”
“Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.”
“If you plan to plot data with error bars, you must name them with an. ERR extension. Failure to do so will crash the system, and you will lose your precious work.”
“a browser extension”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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