extent
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/
Noun

extent (plural extents)

  1. A range of values or locations.
  2. 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
  3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  4. The valuation of property.
  5. (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.
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extent

  1. (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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