"extender" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-extender.wav [Southern-England] Forms: extenders [plural]
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  1. One who extends.
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  2. Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
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  3. Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device. Translations (any of various components designed to extend the length of a device): alargador [masculine] (Spanish), extensor [masculine] (Spanish), extendedor [Spain, masculine] (Spanish)
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  4. Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
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  5. (climbing) A runner, or quick-draw.
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  6. (linguistics) A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: DOS extender, physician extender, range extender, telextender

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