Definition of extension

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Extension (v. t.) The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

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Dimension :: Dimension (n.) The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension..
Indefinite :: Indefinite (a.) Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line..
Web :: Web (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
Panic :: Panic (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
Tensile :: Tensile (a.) Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength..
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
Methol :: Methol (n.) The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl..
Space :: Space (n.) Place, having more or less extension; room..
Elongation :: Elongation (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension..
Retrochoir :: Retrochoir (n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar..
Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion..
Intension :: Intension (n.) The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; -- opposed to extension, extent, or sphere..
Pot :: Pot (n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
Picket :: Picket (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance..
Ginglymus :: Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle..
Terebene :: Terebene (n.) A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances..
Frieze :: Frieze (n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column..
Wolfsbane :: Wolfsbane (n.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite..
Orthodoxy :: Orthodoxy (n.) By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief..
Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances..
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