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Extension vs Widening - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between extension and widening

is that extension is the act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion while widening is the action of the verb widen.

As an adjective widening is

of things that are growing wider.

As a verb widening is

present participle of lang=en.

extension

English

(wikipedia extension)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
  • That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
  • (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2011-07-20 , author = Edwin Mares , title = Propositional Functions , site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function , accessdate = 2012-07-15}}
    In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.
  • (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
  • (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
  • (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
  • (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
  • (telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
  • (computing) A file extension.
    • Files with the ''.txt'' extension usually contain text.
  • (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
    • a browser extension
  • (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.

    • Synonyms

    * (semantics) denotation

    Antonyms

    * (exercise) curl

    Derived terms

    * extensional * extension cord * hair extension * hyperextension * leg extension * triceps extension * file extension * metaphorical extension

    Related terms

    * extend * (semantics) intension * (semantics) comprehension

    See also

    * flexion

    Anagrams

    * ----

    widening

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of things that are growing wider.
  • Of things that are separate, with increasing separation.
    • The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.

    Quotations

    * 1920 — *: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb widen.
  • * 1887 — , Olalla
    • She looked up sleepily and asked me what it was, and with the very words I thought she drew in her breath with a widening of the nostrils and seemed to come suddenly and fully alive.

    Verb

    (head)