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Webster 1913 Edition
Extension
1.
The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
2.
(Physics)
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
3.
(Logic & Metaph.)
(a)
Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; – correlative of
intension
. (b)
the class or set of objects to which a term refers; – contrasted with
intension
, the logical specification which defines members of a class, being the set of attributes which are necessary and sufficient to recognize an object as a member of the class. The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its
extension
. Sir W. Hamilton.
The
extension
of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects. Abp. Thomson.
4.
(Surg.)
The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
5.
(Physiol.)
The straightening of a limb, in distinction from
flexion
. 6.
(Com.)
A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
Counter extension
. (Surg.)
See under
– Counter
. Extension table
, a table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.
Webster 1828 Edition
Extension
EXTEN'SION
,Noun.
1.
The state of being extended; enlargement in breadth, or continuation of length.2.
In philosophy, that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.Definition 2024
extension
extension
See also: extensión
English
Noun
extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)
- The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 2012-07-15:
- 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.
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- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) A file extension.
- Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- a browser extension
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
Synonyms
- (semantics): denotation
Antonyms
- (exercise): curl
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Related terms
- extend verb
- (semantics): intension
- (semantics): comprehension
Translations
act of extending or the state of being extended
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anatomy: that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space
semantics: capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects
finance: written engagement on the part of a creditor
medicine: operation of stretching a broken bone
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weightlifting: an exercise
fencing: a simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward
telecommunication: phone extension number
computing: file extension
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