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.

• IPA: /ɪkˈstɛnt/

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.

• See Thesaurus:extent

• extend
• extense

• German: Umfang, Ausdehnung
• Italian: estensione
• Portuguese: extensão

• French: mesure
• German: Umfang, Ausmaß, Größe, Grad
• Italian: misura
• Portuguese: extensão
• Russian: сте́пень
• Spanish: extensión

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,