different between extension vs multitude

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French estension, from Latin extensi?, extensi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?n??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?ten?sion

Noun

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

1. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase

2. The state of being extended
3. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
4. A part of a building that has been extended from the original
5. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.

   • In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.

6. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
7. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
8. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
9. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
10. (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
11. (computing) A file extension.

    Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.

12. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.

    a browser extension

13. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
14. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.

Synonyms

• (semantics): denotation

Antonyms

• (act of extending): shortening
• (exercise): curl

Derived terms

Related terms

• extend (verb)
• extense
• extent
• (semantics): intension
• (semantics): comprehension

Translations

See also

• flexion

Anagrams

• in extenso

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English extension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eksten??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?ten?sion

Noun

extension

1. (colloquial) extension cord (electrical cord with multi-port socket)

French

Etymology

From Old French estension, borrowed from Latin extenti?, extenti?nem.

Noun

extension f (plural extensions)

1. extension

Derived terms

• module d'extension

Related terms

• étendre

Further reading

• “extension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- +? -tude.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?lt?tju?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?lt??t(j)ud/, /?m?l-/
• Hyphenation: mul?ti?tude

Noun

multitude (plural multitudes)

1. A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.

   Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle
2. The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

   Synonym: crowd

   Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them.

   • Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil

Derived terms

• multitudinous

Translations

References

Further reading

• multitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French multitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myl.ti.tyd/

Noun

multitude f (plural multitudes)

1. multitude

Further reading

• “multitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition).

Noun

multitude f (oblique plural multitudes, nominative singular multitude, nominative plural multitudes)

1. crowd of people
2. diversity; wide range

Descendants

• English: multitude
• French: multitude