extension
n 1: 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"
2: act of expanding in scope; making more widely available:
"extension of the program to all in need"
3: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new
regions [syn: {propagation}]
4: an educational opportunity provided by colleges and
universities to people who not enrolled as regular
students [syn: {extension service}, {university extension}]
5: act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb [ant: {contraction}]
6: the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the
extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing
only Demos and Phobos" [syn: {reference}, {denotation}]
7: amount or degree or range to which something extends: "the
wire has an extension of 50 feet" [syn: {lengthiness}, {prolongation}]
8: an additional telephone set that is connected to the same
telephone line
9: an addition to the length of something [syn: {elongation}]
10: an addition that extends a main building [syn: {annex}, {annexe},
{wing}]