Extension is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTENSION in dictionary:

VERB:
• The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
• That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
• Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
• The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
• The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
• A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
NOUN:
• an act of extending
• a part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it
• a room or rooms added to an existing building
• the action or process of enlarging or extending something
• an application of an existing system or activity to a new area
• an additional period of time given to someone to hold office or fulfil an obligation
• permission granted to licensed premises for the sale of alcoholic drinks until later than usual
• a length of electric cable which permits the use of appliances at some distance from a fixed socket.
• a subsidiary telephone on the same line as the main one
• a subsidiary telephone in a large building, on a line leading from the main switchboard but having its own additional number
• the action of moving a limb from a bent to a straight position
• the ability of a dancer to raise one leg above their waist, especially to the side
• the application of traction to a fractured or dislocated limb or to an injured spinal column to restore it to its normal position.
• denoting instruction by a university or college arranged for people who are not full-time students
• the range of a term or concept as measured by the objects which it denotes or contains.
• the property of occupying space
• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
• amount or degree or range to which something extends
• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
• an addition to the length of something
• an addition that extends a main building
• room or rooms added to an existing building
• lengths of artificial hair woven into a person's own hair to create a very long hairstyle.
• an optional suffix to a filename, typically consisting of a full stop followed by several characters, indicating the file's content or function.
• the lengthening of a horse's stride at a particular pace.
ADJECTIVE:
• denoting something that can be extended or that extends another object
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action of extending; state of being extended; an enlargement in scope or operation

Words related to EXTENSION

extensions17 protense10

Words that contain EXTENSION

extensions17 coextension20 extensional18 inextension18 coextensions21 extensionist19 inextensions19 extensionally23 extensionists20 overextension23 extensionalism23 extensionality24 hyperextension29 overextensions24 extensionalisms24 hyperextensions30 extensionalitie22 extensionalities23

How to use EXTENSION in a sentence

• In my humble opinion the Congress creed with the proposed alteration is but an extension of the original.
• If we do so, we not only neglect our duty towards such children, but permit the growth and extension of the evil.
• What is observed concerning the further extension of this rule to nouns and pronouns of the third person? 8.
• Other possible schemes may be imagined, by which some extension of our African territory would be possible.
• From extension of the suffrage, some think, you might get quite other than good.
• I made a feeble attempt at securing an extension of my leave, but failed, and then I resigned myself to my fate.
• Again, extension was not the essence of matter, which must be solid as well, to be distinguishable from empty space.
• The extension of education will have enabled the uneducated to pronounce upon everything.
• The member for Rustenberg says that there are 9,338 burghers who have declared that they are opposed to the extension of the franchise.
• EXTENSION SERVICE The United States has the best and most wonderful system of Agricultural Extension of any country in the world.
• By which order of extension they were able to discouer the space of two whole degrees at sea.
• Suppose the back of my hand to rest upon a table, and a sovereign to rest upon the upturned palm, I at once acquire a notion of extension, and of the limit of that extension.
• Even Germany will derive benefit from this extension of trade to the east.
• In the map reproduced here we can see the limits of the ice during the period of its greatest extension.
• But the moment you express the desire the University Extension lecturer insists that what you should take is a course of lectures on Dante.

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