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16-06-05, 10:15 PM
: WHERE DID HE GO?- "EXTENSION"?
"...by extension, heaven (as the abode of God); ..."
FROM E-MAIL PRECEDING THIS ONE
by extension, heaven (as the abode of God);
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
extension
SYLLABICATION: ex·ten·sion
PRONUNCIATION: k-stnshn
NOUN: 1. The act of extending or the condition of being extended. 2.
The amount, degree, or range to which something extends or can
extend: The wire has an extension of 50 feet. 3a. The act of
straightening or extending a limb. b. The position assumed by an
extended limb. 4. Medicine The application of traction to a fractured
or dislocated limb to restore the normal position. 5a. An addition
that increases the area, influence, operation, or contents of
something: an extension for the vacuum cleaner; built a new extension
onto the hospital wing. b. An additional telephone connected to a
main line. 6a. An allowance of extra time, as for the repayment of a
debt. b. The period of this extra time: three months' extension on
the loan. 7. The property of an object by which it occupies space. 8.
A program in a university, college, or school that offers
instruction, as by television or correspondence, to persons unable to
attend at the usual time or in the usual place. 9. Logic The class of
objects designated by a specific term or concept; denotation. 10.
Mathematics A set that includes a given and similar set as a subset.
11. Computer Science A set of characters that follow a filename and
are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file:
In most operating systems, file names having the extension .EXE are
executable files.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English extensioun, from Old French extension, from
Latin extnsi, extnsin-, from extnsus, past participle of extendere,
to extend. See extend.
OTHER FORMS: ex·tension·al —ADJECTIVE
NOW, THE QUESTION THAT BEGS TO BE ANSWERED; BY WHOSE "EXTENSION"?
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