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extension   (TTS Sound)

The noun extension has 12 senses

• extension -- (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 -- (act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need")


• propagation, extension -- (the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions)


• extension, extension service, university extension -- (an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students)


• extension -- (act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb)


• extension, filename extension, file name extension -- (a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename; "most applications provide extensions for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS")


• reference, denotation, extension -- (the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos")


• extension -- (the ability to raise the working leg high in the air; "the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension"; "good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability")


• extension, lengthiness, prolongation -- (amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the wire has an extension of 50 feet")


• extension, telephone extension, extension phone -- (an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line)


• elongation, extension -- (an addition to the length of something)


• annex, annexe, extension, wing -- (an addition that extends a main building)