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extension
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)
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase
- The state of being extended
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
- A part of a building that has been extended from the original
- (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.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) A file extension.
- Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- a browser extension
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (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
- (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)
- 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).
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ridge
English
Alternative forms
- rig (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hry?? (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreuk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: r?j, IPA(key): /??d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
ridge (plural ridges)
- (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- 1663–1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part III, canto I, pages 91–92:
- He though it was no time to ?tay, / And let the Night too ?teal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ?traid […]
- 1663–1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part III, canto I, pages 91–92:
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- Antonym: groove
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- 1853-1855, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler , The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington
- the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights
- 1853-1855, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler , The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington
- A chain of mountains.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, [Act I, scene i], lines 62–66:
- […] Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engli?hman dur?t ?et his foote.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, [Act I, scene i], lines 62–66:
- A chain of hills.
- (oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- (meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
- Antonym: trough
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ridge (third-person singular simple present ridges, present participle ridging, simple past and past participle ridged)
- (transitive) To form into a ridge
- (intransitive) To extend in ridges
Related terms
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
See also
- crest
Anagrams
- derig, dirge, gride, redig
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