Gammon vs Extension - What's the difference?
gammon | extension |
(backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not taken a single stone; (also, rarely, backgammon, the game itself).
(nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
(dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
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To deceive, to lie plausibly.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
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}}
(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.
(computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
(logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
As a proper noun gammon
is (ireland) the language of the irish travelling community.As a noun extension is
tract (an area).gammon
English
(wikipedia gammon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) gambon (compare modern French .Etymology 2
Probably a special use of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Perhaps related to the first etymology, with reference to tying up a ham.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
Perhaps a special use of the word from etymology 2.Noun
(en noun)- He swore that all other religions were gammon ,
And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.
Verb
(en verb)extension
English
(wikipedia extension)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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