Extension Meaning
/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
nounThe state of being extended.
Sentence Examples
The extension of summer vacation delighted the children.
Grace goes to phone extension upstairs.
The extension of new technology into developing countries
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The professor granted a one-week ____ for the term paper submission to all students.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He asked for an ____ on his term paper because he had been sick for several days.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The professor granted a one-week ____ for the term paper submission to all students.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He asked for an ____ on his term paper because he had been sick for several days.