extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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extension | (noun) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students | Synonyms: extension service, university extension |
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(noun) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb | - |
(noun) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available | - |
(noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing |
(noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: elongation |
(noun) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line | Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension |
(noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation |
(noun) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air | - |
(noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, reference |
(noun) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename | Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension |
(noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: propagation |
(noun) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt | - |
extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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extensor | (noun) a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part | Synonyms: extensor muscle |
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extent | (noun) the distance or area or volume over which something extends | - |
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(noun) the point or degree to which something extends | - |
extenuation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: mitigation, palliation |
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(noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: mitigation |
exterior | (noun) the outer side or surface of something | Synonyms: outside |
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(noun) the region that is outside of something | Synonyms: outside |
exteriorisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorization, externalisation, externalization |
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exteriorization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, externalisation, externalization |
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extermination | (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: liquidation |
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(noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extinction |
exterminator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: eradicator, terminator |
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extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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external | (noun) outward features | - |
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externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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(noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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(noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
exteroception | (noun) sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body | - |
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exteroceptor | (noun) any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body | - |
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