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Word: extension (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Noun:

  • finance A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
  • computing A file extension.
  • fencing A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
  • medicine The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
  • semantics Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
  • telecommunication A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
  • That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
  • The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
  • weightlifting An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.

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