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Answer for the clue "Act of expanding in scope ", 9 letters:
extension

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Word definitions for extension in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extension \Ex*ten"sion\, n. [L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See Extend , v. t.] The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion. (Physics) That property ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In any of several studies that treat the use of signs — for example, in linguistics , logic , mathematics , semantics , and semiotics — the extension of a concept, idea, or sign consists of the things to which it applies, in contrast with its comprehension ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES extension lead COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE further ▪ South Cave school was opened in 1967, further extensions including a sports hall were completed in 1978. ▪ But the new function as a syllabic symbol received ...

Usage examples of extension.

In a way, the adjective following the noun is treated as an extension of the noun proper, and so the case ending is added at the end of the whole phrase.

They were on the same level now as the first of the two upper flights, which he could see were the new Fokkers, with aileron extensions and the extra lifting surface between the wheels.

I just finished up years of working on an Amicus Brief for the Supreme Court in the hope of overturning the latest copyright extensions.

It now appears that the unheard-of currents, amounting to millions of amperes, which flowed momentarily in the windings of our generator must have produced a certain extension into four dimensions, for a fraction of a second and in a 7volume large enough to contain a man.

Alex followed the arthritic old man down the short corridor and through a narrow door into a small office that was a miniature extension of the expensive outer design.

Act is timeless, so there is no reason why Motion also should not primarily be timeless, time attaching to it only in so far as it happens to have such and such an extension.

No argument for the divine authority of Christianity has been urged with greater force, or traced with higher eloquence, than that deduced from its primary development, explicable on no other hypothesis than a heavenly origin, and from its rapid extension through great part of the Roman empire.

Taking his time, he installed the Camcorder on its tripod and arranged the photoflood lights which he plugged into an extension cable.

There is not only a significance of the discerned events embracing the whole present duration, but there is a significance of a cogredient event involving its extension through a whole time-system backwards and forwards.

There was a crash, three stories below, as the dacoit hit the roof of an extension behind the apartment building.

But if they have that faculty, the same dualism between thought and extension must also apply to them.

Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

The complaint of discontented people in the Southern States was that there had been too great an expansion of popular rights, too large an extension of the elective franchise.

The attributes of God are laws, his modes of action are the essentialities of his being, the same in all the worlds of boundless extension and all the ages of endless duration.

In every proposed extension of the powers of Congress, that State has expressly and watchfully excepted that of meddling with the importation of negroes.