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extent

noun
/ɪkˈstɛnt/

Etymology

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

  1. derived from extendere
  2. derived from estente
  3. derived from extente
  4. inherited from extente

Definitions

  1. A range of values or locations.

  2. The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.

    • I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
    • The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
    • But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent

  3. A contiguous area of storage in a file system.

    • Each extent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes each extent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in the extent, and the number of clusters in the extent.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The valuation of property.

    2. A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts…

      A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.

      • Well, push him out of doors; And let my officers of such a nature Make an extent upon his house and lands. Do this expediently, and turn him going.

    3. Extended.

      • But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,

The neighborhood

Derived

extentive, extentless, extent of occurrence, multiextent, optical extent, page extent, to a greater extent, to a great extent, to a large extent, to a lesser extent, to an extent, to some extent

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for extent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA