extension

CEFRB2

/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/

noun

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01
noun
An addition that makes something longer or larger.
02
noun
Extra time allowed for finishing something.

Examples

The extension of summer vacation delighted the children.
The extension of new technology into developing countries

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

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noun

Extra meanings

That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
The state of being extended.
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.

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In context

Grace goes to phone extension upstairs.
Due to the unforeseen circumstances, you are allowed an extension of two weeks to complete the task.
Next month the house is undergoing an extension.

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"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167
For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
In smaller communities, the public schools are virtual extensions of each town's chief religion — "educating" kids to all the prejudices of that belief.
1978 December 9, Mitzel, “Post-Briggs Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 5
Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced.
2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC
In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.
2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012

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Origin

noun

From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.

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The professor granted a one-week blank for the term paper submission to all students.