extension
— Noun
– English
~ an addition to the length of something
extension
— Noun
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~ a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an extension of the loan"
extension
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~ act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need"
extension
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~ an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
extension cord
— Noun
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~ an electric cord used to extend the length of a power cord
extension
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~ act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
extension
— Noun
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~ amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the wire has an extension of 50 feet"
extensional
— Adjective
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~ defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies
extensive
— Adjective
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~ of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type"
extensive
— Adjective
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~ broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
extensive
— Adjective
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~ large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
extensively
— Adverb
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~ in a widespread way; "oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest"
extensiveness
— Noun
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~ large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness; "the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness"; "the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it"
extensor
— Noun
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~ a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part
extent
— Noun
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~ the distance or area or volume over which something extends; "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent"
extent
— Noun
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~ the point or degree to which something extends; "the extent of the damage"; "the full extent of the law"; "to a certain extent she was right"
extenuate
— Verb
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~ lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
extenuating
— Adjective
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~ partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances"
extenuation
— Noun
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~ a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
extenuation
— Noun
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~ to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious