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Former sheep herder?
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extender
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In set theory , an extender is a system of ultrafilters which represents an elementary embedding witnessing large cardinal properties. A nonprincipal ultrafilter is the most basic case of an extender. A -extender can be defined as an elementary embedding ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extender \Ex*tend"er\, n. One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material. 2 Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device. 3 Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from extend (v.). Middle English had extendour "surveyor, assessor."
Usage examples of extender.
Before leaving the area, Maro had rigged a roll-up cable and extender from the hangar roof, set to a sonic switch.
Her self-repair facilities, micromachines of various designs, crawled along the electronic neural extenders and yanked the filaments out of her tanks and filled in the drillmarks.
T-teams and ops units, Triggers went to the Air Force for installation in Global Hawk battlefield intelligence drones, E-8D Joint STARS flying radar stations, and KC-10B Extender tankers - all unarmed aircraft crucial to the twenty-first-century concept of war.
Usually, the reclaimed rubber is used as an extender, together with fresh rubber.