Extended letter(Typog.), a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height.

This is extended type.

Syn. — To increase; enlarge; expand; widen; diffuse. See Increase.

Extendant
(Ex*tend"ant) a. (Her.) Displaced. Ogilvie.

Extendedly
(Ex*tend"ed*ly) adv. In an extended manner.

Extender
(Ex*tend"er) n. One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

Extendible
(Ex*tend"i*ble) a.

1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

2. (Law) Liable to be taken by a writ of extent.

Extendlessness
(Ex*tend"less*ness), n. Unlimited extension. [Obs.]

An . . . extendlessness of excursions.
Sir. M. Hale.

Extense
(Ex*tense") a. [L. extensus, p. p. See Extend, v. t.] Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

Men and gods are too extense;
Could you slacken and condense?
Emerson.

Extensibility
(Ex*ten`si*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.

Extensible
(Ex*ten"si*ble) a. [Cf. F. extensible. See Extend.] Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; — the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.

7. (Eng. Law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.


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