επέκταση — meaning in English

English meaning

• expansion noun The act or process of becoming larger, or an instance of this happening.
• 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

επέκταση is used for these senses in English:

• expansion (building) A new addition.
• 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.

expansion — full definition

1. noun The act or process of becoming larger, or an instance of this happening.
2. noun A measurement of how much a material's length increases for each degree that its temperature rises.
3. noun Something extra that is added to increase the size or scope of a thing.
4. noun An extra item that is designed to be used together with something you already have.

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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