noun : EXTENSION
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an extension of the loan" ;
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2. (
) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need" ;
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3. (
) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions ;
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4. (
) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students ;
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5. (
) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb ;
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6. (
) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename; "most applications provide extensions for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS" ;
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7. (
) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos" ;
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8. (
) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air; "the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension"; "good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability" ;
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9. (
) amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the wire has an extension of 50 feet" ;
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10. (
) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line ;
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11. (
) an addition to the length of something ;
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12. (
) an addition that extends a main building ;
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