extension
noun
an act or instance of extending, lengthening, stretching out, or enlarging the scope of something.
extensionless
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a word derived from
extension.
Example Sentences
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It can be summarised as the belief that nature is an aggregate of material and that this material exists in some sense at each successive member of a one-dimensional series of extensionless instants of time.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
Space, on this theory, is a system of extensionless points which are the relata in space-ordering relations which can technically be com bined into one relation.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
