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Definitions for Extender

[1] a substance added to another substance, as to paint or food, to increase its volume or bulk: to add cereal and soy protein to hamburger as extenders.
[2] Photography . See under converter(def 8) .
[3] a person or thing that converts.
[4] Electricity . a device that converts alternating current to direct current or vice versa. Compare inverter, synchronous converter.
[5] Metallurgy . a chamber or vessel through which an oxidizing blast of air is forced, as in making steel by the Bessemer process.
[6] Television . decoder(def 5) .
[7] Radio and Television . an auxiliary device that permits a receiver to pick up frequencies or channels for which it was not originally designed.
[8] Physics . a reactor for converting one kind of fuel into another kind.
[9] a person who is engaged in converting textile fabrics, especially cotton cloths, from the raw state into the finished product ready for the market by bleaching, dyeing, etc.
[10] Also called converter lens . Photography . an additional lens attached to a lens in use on a camera to alter focal length, mounted in front of a lens to produce a wide-angle effect (wide-angle converter) or between the lens and the camera body to produce a telephoto effect (teleconverter or extender) .
[11] a person or thing that extends
[12] a substance, such as French chalk or china clay, added to paints to give them body and decrease their rate of settlement
[13] a substance added to glues and resins to dilute them or to modify their viscosity
[14] a substance added to elastomers to assist the plasticizer
[15] printing the part of certain lower-case letters that extends either above (the ascender) or below (the descender) the body of the letter
[16] a person or thing that converts
[17] physics a device for converting alternating current to direct current or vice versa a device for converting a signal from one frequency to another or from analogue to digital forms
[18] a vessel in which molten metal is refined, using a blast of air or oxygen See also Bessemer converter, L-D converter
[19] short for converter reactor
[20] computing a device for converting one form of coded information to another, such as an analogue-to-digital converter

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Origin of Extender

converterFirst recorded in 1525–35; convert1 + -er1