noun /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/
a) The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
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b) That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
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