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extended

Dictionary definition · extended

adjective

  1. relatively long in duration; tediously protracted"a drawn-out argument"
  2. fully extended or stretched forth"an extended telescope"
  3. drawn out or made longer spatially"Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"
  4. beyond the literal or primary sense"‘hot off the press’ shows an extended sense of ‘hot’"
  5. large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity"an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).