, one of the common and essential properties of body; or that by which it possesses or takes up some part of universal space, called the place of that body.
The extension of a body, is properly in every direction whatever; but it is usual to consider it as extended only in length, breadth, and thickness.
EXTERIOR Polygon, or Talus, is the outer or circumscribing one. See Polygon and Talus.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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