extension
/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Next month the house is undergoing an extension."
- "Due to the unforeseen circumstances, you are allowed an extension of two weeks to complete the task."
- ""Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made."
- "For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure."
- "Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves"
- "My research is an extension of the work of my mentor."
Etymology
From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: extensioun, estension, extensiō