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Definition of Extension

Extension 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. Related Definitions: Act, Allowing, As, Augmentation, Being, Body, Bone, Breadth, Bring, Broken, By, Capacity, Concept, Continuation, Correlative, Creditor, Debt, Debtor, Distinction, Engagement, Enlargement, Expansion, Extended, Extending, Flexion, From, Further, General, In, Include, Increase, Intension, Into, It, Length, Limb, Line, Number, Of, On, Operation, Or, Out, Part, Pay, Portion, Property, Same, So, Space, State, Straight, Stretching, Term, That, The, Time, To, Which, Written

Extension Quotations Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. Tadao Ando Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs? Julian Casablancas

Extension Translations extension in Dutch is achtervoegsel, suffix extension in French is expansive, extension, rallonge extension in German is Erweiterung, Erweiterung {f} extension in Italian is dilatazione, estensione extension in Norwegian is forlengelse, utstrekning, utvidelse, utvidelse

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