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noun
- 1. a part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it: "the railway's southern extension" Similar
- 2. a length of electric cable which permits the use of appliances at some distance from a fixed socket.
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the fact of reaching, stretching, or continuing; the act of adding to something in order to make it bigger or longer: extension of The extension (= increasing) of police powers in the province has been heavily criticized. The article is an extension of (= takes further) the ideas Professor Fox developed in an earlier book.
noun. an act or instance of extending, lengthening, stretching out, or enlarging the scope of something. Synonyms: dilation, increase, enlargement, expansion. Antonyms: contraction. the state of being extended, lengthened, or stretched out. that by which something is extended or enlarged; an addition: a four-room extension to a house.
The meaning of EXTENSION is the action of extending : state of being extended. How to use extension in a sentence.
1. countable noun. An extension is a new room or building which is added to an existing building or group of buildings. 2. countable noun. An extension is a new section of a road or rail line that is added to an existing road or line. ...the Jubilee Line extension. 3. countable noun B2.
n. 1. The act of extending or the condition of being extended: the extension of the subway into the suburbs. 2. The amount, degree, or range to which something extends or can extend: The wire has an extension of 50 feet. 3. a. The act of straightening or extending a limb. b. The position assumed by an extended limb. 4.
the fact of reaching, stretching, or continuing; the act of adding to something in order to make it bigger or longer: extension of The extension (= increasing) of police powers in the province has been heavily criticized. The article is an extension of (= takes further) the ideas Professor Fox developed in an earlier book.
/ɪkˈstenʃn/ Idioms. increasing influence. [uncountable, countable] extension (of something) the act of increasing the area of activity, group of people, etc. that is affected by something. the extension of new technology into healthcare. a gradual extension of the powers of central government.
An extension is the act of getting more time, space, or length, like an extension of a deadline that gives you one more day to turn in a paper, or extensions that make your hair look longer.
Definition of extension noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Buildings, Telephone, telegraph, College, Computers ex‧ten‧sion /ɪkˈstenʃən/ S3 W3 noun 1 making something bigger or longer [countable, uncountable] the process of making a road, building etc bigger or longer, or the part that is added extension of the extension of the Jubilee u...
