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extension
ɪkˈstɛnʃ(ə)n Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it.
    E.g. the railway's southern extension
  • a length of electric cable which permits the use of appliances at some distance from a fixed socket.
  • a subsidiary telephone on the same line as the main one.
    E.g. you can listen on the extension in the bedroom
  • the action of moving a limb from a bent to a straight position.
    E.g. seizures with sudden rigid extension of the limbs
  • denoting instruction by a university or college arranged for people who are not full-time students.
    E.g. a postgraduate extension course
  • the range of a term or concept as measured by the objects which it denotes or contains.
  • the property of occupying space.
    E.g. nature, for Descartes, was pure extension in space

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