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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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sequence
English
Etymology
From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?kw?ns/
Noun
sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
- he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
Usage notes
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.
Synonyms
- (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence
Hypernyms
- (mathematics): function
Hyponyms
- presequence
- (computing): escape sequence
Meronyms
- (mathematics): term
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)
- (transitive) to arrange in an order
- (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
- (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer
Translations
References
Further reading
- sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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