noun
- an extending or being extended
- the amount or degree to which something is or can be extended; range; extent
- a part that forms a continuation or addition: an extension to a factory
- an extra period of time allowed a debtor for making payment
- a branch of a university for students who cannot attend the university proper
- an extra telephone connected to the same line as the main telephone
- the straightening of a flexed limb
- traction applied to a fractured or dislocated limb so as to bring it into its normal position
- Ballet
- the act or an instance of extending either leg at any angle from the body
- the capability of a dancer to so extend a leg, specif. at a difficult angle for a period of time
- Commerce
- an amount on an invoice calculated by multiplying quantity by price
- the calculation of such an amount
- Logic the class of all particular objects to which a term refers; denotation
- Physics that property of a body by which it occupies space
Origin:
ME extensioun < L extensio < pp. of extendere: see extend
adjective
designating a device that can be extended or that extends something else: extension ladder, extension cord