Synonyms:
extension
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
extension
Meaning: act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need"
Synonyms:
propagation, extension
Meaning: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
Synonyms:
extension, extension_service, university_extension
Meaning: an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
Synonyms:
extension
Meaning: act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
Usage examples
The press, in other words, can fight for the extension of reportable truth.
This extension of our insight makes foresight more accurate and comprehensive.
I felt a considerable extension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.
These, I think, are the original ideas proper and peculiar to body; for figure is but the consequence of finite extension.
They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue.
As soon as this legal question was settled a considerable impetus was given to the extension of the auxiliary principle for sailing ships.
We may observe, that in order to prove the ideas of extension and colour not to be innate, philosophers do nothing but shew that they are conveyed by our senses.
It labored specially to bring about the dissolution of the old party organizations and the formation of a new one, based upon the general policy of resisting the extension of slavery.
Bowers' annexe is finished, roof and all thoroughly snow tight; an excellent place for spare clothing, furs, and ready use stores, and its extension affording complete protection to the entrance porch of the hut.
These, and the like fashions of speaking, intimate that the substance is supposed always SOMETHING BESIDES the extension, figure, solidity, motion, thinking, or other observable ideas, though we know not what it is.