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Erweiterung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • annex noun A separate or attached building added to a larger one.
  • enhancement noun An improvement or addition that makes something better.
  • enlargement noun The act of making something bigger, or the resulting increase in size.
  • 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.

Senses

Erweiterung is used for these senses in English:

  • add-on (sometimes, attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.
  • add-on (computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
  • annex An addition, an extension.
  • annex An addition or extension to a building.
  • enhancement An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
  • enlargement An act or instance of making something larger.
  • 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.

annex — full definition

  1. noun A separate or attached building added to a larger one.
  2. noun A section added to the end of a document, listing extra material.
  3. verb To take control of territory and incorporate it into one's own country, typically by force.

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