extent
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente, from estendre, extendre ("extend") (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɪkˈstɛnt/
extent (plural extents)
- A range of values or locations.
- The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
- The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
- (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- The valuation of property.
- (legal) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene i], lines 1117-20:
- 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.
- See Thesaurus:extent
- German: Umfang, Ausdehnung
- Italian: estensione
- Portuguese: extensão
- French: mesure
- German: Umfang, Ausmaß, Größe, Grad
- Italian: misura
- Portuguese: extensão
- Russian: сте́пень
- Spanish: extensión
extent
- (obsolete) Extended.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- But both his Hands, most filthy feculent,
Above the Water were on high extent,
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