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Columbia Encyclopedia
Cooperative Extension Service, in the United States, publicly supported, informal adult education and development organization. Established in 1914 by the Smith-Lever Act, it constitutes one of the largest adult education programs in the world and consists of three levels of organization—federal, state, and county. Its overall objective is to plan, execute, and evaluate learning experiences that will help people acquire the understanding and skills essential for solving farm, home, and community problems. This objective is met through educational programs that make use of research findings emanating primarily from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the state land-grant colleges and universities. The Extension Service also sponsors Four-H Clubs for youth throughout the country.
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Extension may refer to:
- Extension (kinesiology), a movement of a joint in which one part of the body is moved away from another.
- Extension (metaphysics), the property of taking up space
- Extension (semantics), the set of things to which a property applied
- Extension (mathematics); an extension of some structure is another structure which contains the original structure
- Extension (geology)
- Extension (telephone), an internal telephone line attached to a PBX or Centrex system
- Software extension, a computer program that is not useful in its own right but designed to be incorporated in another piece of software
- System Extension, a particular type of this software on the classic Mac OS
- Extension, a type of add-on for Firefox and other Mozilla projects
- Filename extension, a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format
- Tension (physics)
- Extension (community development), the building of community capacity by outsiders, for instance, agricultural extension
- Extension (cheerleading), a stunt in which a flyer is held in the air by the bases' fully extended arms
- Extension, the classical name for the Mc1r gene.
- Extension (music), a set of notes that fit outside the standard range
- Extension, BC is a small former coal-mining village near Nanaimo, BC, Canada
- Enamel extension in dentistry
- Extension cable
- Extensive property, in physics, a property which depends on the system size or the amount of material in the system
- Extension school, a school for continuing education
- Hair extensions, strands of hair added to supplement a person's existing hair
- Eyelash extensions
- Extensions the 1979 album by The Manhattan Transfer
- Extension of universal health care.
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