extension
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
Example
“Next month the house is undergoing an extension.”
Other meanings
The state of being extended.
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
Related words
- coextension
- counterextension
- extensional
- extensionist
- flexoextension
- flextension
- inextension
- nonextension
- postextension
- superextension
- extensograph
- conservative extension
Word history
From Latin "extensiō" (extensiō, extensiōnem).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “extension” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.