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noun

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

• The state of being extended

• That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")

• A part of a building that has been extended from the original

• Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

• A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

• The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

• An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.

• A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.

• A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.

• A file extension.

  Example: Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.

• An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.

  Example: a browser extension

• The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.

• (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.