act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need";
act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb;
an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who not enrolled as regular students;
an addition that extends a main building;
an addition to the length of something;
an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line;
amount or degree or range to which something extends; "the wire has an extension of 50 feet";
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";
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";
the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions;
a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three 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";
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";
