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Webster 1913 Edition
Extent
1.
Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length;
as, an
extent
of country or of line; extent
of information or of charity.Life in its large
extent
is scare a span. Cotton.
2.
Degree; measure; proportion.
“The extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be.” Lubbock.
3.
(Eng. Law)
(a)
A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.
(b)
A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Extent
EXTENT'
,Adj.
EXTENT'
,Noun.
1.
Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, compass; bulk; size; as a great extent of country, or of body.2.
Length; as an extent of line.3.
Communication; distribution.The extent of equal justice.
4.
In law, a writ of execution or extendi facias, commanding a sheriff to value the lands of a debtor; or extent is the act of the sheriff or commissioner in making the valuation.Definition 2024
extent
extent
English
Noun
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.
- 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
- The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
- 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:
- [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
- (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
Translations
range of values or locations
space, area, volume to which something extends
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(computing) individual area of storage
See also
Adjective
extent (comparative more extent, superlative most extent)
- (obsolete) Extended.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)