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Ausdehnung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • expansion noun An act, process, or instance of expanding.
  • extension noun An extra part added to something to make it larger or longer, or an extra period of time granted beyond an original deadline.
  • extent noun The area, range, or degree to which something covers or applies.
  • sprawl verb To sit or lie with the arms and legs spread out carelessly.

Senses

Ausdehnung is used for these senses in English:

  • expansion An act, process, or instance of expanding.
  • extension (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
  • extent A range of values or locations.
  • sprawl A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

expansion — full definition

  1. noun An act, process, or instance of expanding.
  2. noun The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
  3. noun A new addition.
  4. noun A product to be used with a previous product.

extension — full definition

  1. noun An extra part added to something to make it larger or longer, or an extra period of time granted beyond an original deadline.
  2. noun A small program that adds features to a web browser or other software.
  3. noun An additional telephone line within an office or building, or the short number that reaches it.

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