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 extension [ik'stenʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 延长, 扩充, 范围, 扩展名

a. 伸缩的

[计] 扩展名, 扩充名

[化] 伸长

[经] 延期


  1. He built an extension onto his house.
    他给自己的住宅扩建了一部分。
  2. He asked for an extension of his visa.
    他申请延长签证有效期。
  3. She has an extension in the kitchen and in the bedroom.
    她的厨房和卧室都有电话分机。


extension
[ noun ]
  1. a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

  2. <noun.time>
    they applied for an extension of the loan
  3. act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

  4. <noun.act>
    extension of the program to all in need
  5. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

  6. <noun.communication>
  7. an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

  8. <noun.act>
  9. act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

  10. <noun.act>
  11. a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

  12. <noun.communication>
    most applications provide extensions for the files they create
    most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS
  13. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

  14. <noun.cognition>
    the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
  15. the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

  16. <noun.attribute>
    the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension
    good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability
  17. amount or degree or range to which something extends

  18. <noun.attribute>
    the wire has an extension of 50 feet
  19. an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

  20. <noun.artifact>
  21. an addition to the length of something

  22. <noun.artifact>
  23. an addition that extends a main building

  24. <noun.artifact>


Extension \Ex*ten"sion\, n. [L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See
{Extend}, v. t.]
1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a
stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of
length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

2. (Physics) That property of a body by which it occupies a
portion of space.

3. (Logic & Metaph.)
(a) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a
greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative
of {intension}.
(b) the class or set of objects to which a term refers; --
contrasted with {intension}, the logical specification
which defines members of a class, being the set of
attributes which are necessary and sufficient to
recognize an object as a member of the class.

The law is that the intension of our knowledge
is in the inverse ratio of its extension. --Sir
W. Hamilton.

The extension of [the term] plant is greater
than that of geranium, because it includes more
objects. --Abp.
Thomson.

4. (Surg.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to
bring the fragments into the same straight line.

5. (Physiol.) The straightening of a limb, in distinction
from {flexion}.

6. (Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor,
allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

{Counter extension}. (Surg.) See under {Counter}.

{Extension table}, a table so constructed as to be readily
extended or contracted in length.

  1. PETE V. DOMENICI Domenici was granted an extension to June 16.
  2. Bob Daly, chairman of Warner Bros. studio, a Time Warner Inc. unit, and the leader of the Hollywood negotiating team, said some progress is being made and asked for a deadline extension.
  3. Antar's lawyers said he needed a 24-hour extension for personal reasons.
  4. It is an extension of an Ecu5bn EIB credit line agreed at last year's Edinburgh summit.
  5. The House agreed to a seven-month extension of the program that allows some illegal aliens to apply for legal residence.
  6. The money came partly from Pounds 3m devoted to environmental improvements along the DLR extension which opened earlier this year. The LDDC is expected to agree a further Pounds 1.5m for the ecology park this summer.
  7. State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said extension of "consular privileges" to about 50 of the 250 employees in the procurement mission and a trade office would probably not be retroactive.
  8. He regarded church schools as an extension of religious freedom.
  9. Drexel has requested a 120-day extension from a June 13 deadline to file a reorganization plan in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. A spokesman declined to discuss the plan and Drexel attorneys did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
  10. "We realize that President Bush and many members of Congress are supporting the extension of the restraint agreement in the fall of 1989, but they have the time now to rethink and modify the program before it is too late," Laffer said.
  11. It's scary," said extension agent Judee Wargo in Montana's Liberty County, where rainfall since October has measured 0.73 inch, compared with an average 3.17 inches for the period.
  12. These measures include extension of voluntary import quotas after 1989 and action against non-participatory nations.
  13. The unfinished details included company demands for a longer work week at the same pay and an extension of company rights to hire temporary workers, Masters said.
  14. But he added the firm "always would respect the direction of the American Stock Exchange and, by extension, the Tokyo Stock Exchange." Existing warrants would continue to trade until their expiration.
  15. The contract expired at midnight Monday, but the union, citing progress, agreed to an indefinite extension.
  16. The Senate voted that "the annual percentage rate applicable to an extension of credit obtained by use of a credit card may not exceed by more than four percentage points the rate" of interest the Internal Revenue Service charges on unpaid taxes.
  17. He added that he opposes "in principle" an extension of the deadline that the five Central American presidents set for themselves for a regional cease-fire and political opening to take effect.
  18. BAA, the airports operator, launched a Pounds 60m investment programme yesterday to improve international passenger services at Glasgow airport. The development will be the second stage in the extension and improvement of the airport.
  19. "We're living on borrowed time," says Dennis Thompson, agricultural adviser with the University of Illinois extension service in Rock Island County.
  20. Futures margin is not part of a credit extension, but is a performance bond paid by both the buyer and seller to assure that they will honor obligations to bear price risk.
  21. "The extension of the standstill agreement will give us the additional time needed to work out the details of a restructuring plan," he said.
  22. Over the next decade, Shropshire should become more firmly embedded into the national transport system. In economic terms, arguably the biggest boost will come from the extension of the M54 motorway to Shrewsbury.
  23. Most chip executives don't think Japan will reach the goal, part of an 18-month extension last year of a 1986 trade pact between Japan and the U.S.
  24. Brazilian officials said their country will not be seeking a deadline extension on on debt payments, as some reports have suggested.
  25. The correct extension then receives the call, says Robert McNamara, executive vice president of engineering.
  26. New responses may well emerge from the family, or new institutional forms may fill the gap. For those with the skills to qualify as core employees, the extension of corporate welfare may offer a lifeline.
  27. Take the Jubilee line extension, for example.
  28. Why is it not possible to buy a house extension or a new bathroom or kitchen that is as well-designed as the average car?
  29. The United States and Soviet Union today signed an extension of their long-term grain agreement, providing for the Soviets to purchase more than 20 million tons of grain and soybeans.
  30. Shamir requested the extension after a three-week mandate Herzog gave him Nov. 14 expired.
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