different between extension vs proportion

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 proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin pr?porti? (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???p????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???p????n/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /p???po(?)???n/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /p???po???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: pro?por?tion

Noun

proportion (countable and uncountable, plural proportions)

1. (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”

2. (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
3. (countable) Proper or equal share.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Let the women […] do the same things in their proportions and capacities.

4. The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.
5. (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
6. (mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
7. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

proportion (third-person singular simple present proportions, present participle proportioning, simple past and past participle proportioned)

1. (transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
2. (transitive) To form symmetrically.
3. (transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
4. (transitive, archaic) To correspond to.

Translations

Further reading

• proportion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• proportion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin pr?porti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.p??.sj??/

Noun

proportion f (plural proportions)

1. proportion

Derived terms