расширение — meaning in English

English meaning

• amplification noun The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
• 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.
• flare noun A bright light or flame used as a signal or for illumination, often a handheld or fired device.
• inflation noun A general and sustained rise in prices, which reduces the purchasing power of money.
• widening adj Becoming wider or more spread apart.

Senses

расширение 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.
• amplification The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
• expansion An act, process, or instance of expanding.
• extension (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
• 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.
• flare A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
• inflation (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

amplification — full definition

1. noun The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
2. noun The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
3. noun The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
4. noun A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).

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.

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