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- English Word Extension Definition Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
- English Word Extension Definition The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- English Word Extension Definition The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
- English Word Extension Definition A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- English Word Extensional Definition Having great extent.
- English Word Extensionist Definition One who favors or advocates extension.
- English Word Extensive Definition Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.
- English Word Extensive Definition Capable of being extended.
- English Word Extensively Definition To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
- English Word Extensiveness Definition The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
- English Word Extensometer Definition An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.
- English Word Extensor Definition A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.
- English Word Extensure Definition Extension.
- English Word Extent Definition Extended.
- English Word Extent Definition Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.
- English Word Extent Definition Degree; measure; proportion.
- English Word Extent Definition A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.
- English Word Extent Definition A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
- English Word Extenuate Definition To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
- English Word Extenuate Definition To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate.
- English Word Extenuate Definition To lower or degrade; to detract from.
- English Word Extenuate Definition To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
- English Word Extenuate Definition Thin; slender.
- English Word Extenuated Definition of Extenuate
- English Word Extenuating Definition of Extenuate
- English Word Extenuation Definition The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
- English Word Extenuator Definition One who extenuates.
- English Word Extenuatory Definition Tending to extenuate or palliate.
- English Word Exterior Definition External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
- English Word Exterior Definition External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.