Definition of Extension

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Extension

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.

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

The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.

A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

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Extension Quotations

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates

I invented the cordless extension cord.
Steven Wright

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
Gene Simmons

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
Gottfried Leibniz

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Extension Translations

extension in Dutch is achtervoegsel, suffix
extension in French is expansive, extension, rallonge
extension in German is Erweiterung, Erweiterung {f}
extension in Italian is dilatazione, estensione
extension in Norwegian is forlengelse, utstrekning, utvidelse, utvidelse

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