n. | 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.) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; - correlative of | |||||||
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 | |||||||
6. | (Com.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
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EXTENSION, comm. law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an
agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in
order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve
his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their
several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand
payment.
2. Among the French, a similar agreement is known by the name of
atermoiement. Merl. Rep. mot Atermoiement.
1. | (filename extension) | extension - filename extension. | |
2. | (programming) | extension - A feature or piece of code which extends a program's functionality, e.g. a plug-in. |