extension

noun22

1. •
   The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.

   • 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.
2. •
   The state of being extended.
3. •
   A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
4. •
   An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.

   • Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves
   • My research is an extension of the work of my mentor.
5. •
   An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
6. •
   [in the plural] Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
7. •
   Ellipsis of extension cord.
8. •
   A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
9. •
   Ellipsis of file extension.

   • Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
10. •
    University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
11. •
    An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
12. •
    A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
13. •
    A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
14. •
    Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
15. •
    The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
16. •
    Semantic widening, broadening of meaning.
17. •
    That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
18. •
    The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
19. •
    A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
20. •
    A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
21. •
    The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
22. •
    A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.