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
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Derived forms: extensions

See also: extend, extensional

Type of: addition, add-on, airing, dance, delay, didactics, dissemination, education, educational activity, enlargement, expansion, hold, improver, instruction, longness, meaning, pedagogy, phone, postponement, property, public exposure, spreading, stretching, string, substance, teaching, telephone, telephone set, time lag, wait

Antonym: flexion

Part of: building, computer file name, computer filename, edifice, file name, filename

Encyclopedia: Extension

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