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English
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.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɛnt/
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
- Hyphenation: ex‧tent
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.
2019, Richard E. Smith, Elementary Information Security, page 205: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.
- The valuation of property.
- (law) 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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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range of values or locations
space, area, volume to which something extends
- Arabic: اِتِّسَاع m (ittisāʕ), مَدَّى f (maddā)
- Bulgarian: размер (bg) m (razmer), протежение (bg) n (proteženie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 程度 (zh) (chéngdu)
- Czech: rozměr (cs)
- Esperanto: amplekso (eo)
- Finnish: laajuus (fi), määrä (fi)
- French: mesure (fr) f
- Galician: extensión (gl) f
- German: Umfang (de) m, Ausmaß (de) n, Größe (de) f, Grad (de) n
- Greek: έκταση (el) f (éktasi)
- Hindi: विस्तार (hi) m (vistār)
- Italian: misura (it) f
- Japanese: 程度 (ja) (ていど, teido)
- Khmer: វិសាលភាពក៏ដោយ (visaealpheap kadaoy)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ڕادە (rade)
- Maori: mokorahi, nuku, korahi
- Plautdietsch: Wied f
- Polish: stopień (pl) m
- Portuguese: extensão (pt) f
- Romanian: întindere (ro), volum (ro)
- Russian: сте́пень (ru) f (stépenʹ), объём (ru) m (obʺjóm), разме́р (ru) m (razmér), ме́ра (ru) f (méra)
- Scottish Gaelic: farsaingeachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: степен m, размера f, обим m
- Roman: stepen (sh) m, razmera (sh) f, obim (sh) m
- Spanish: extensión (es) f
- Ukrainian: сту́пінь (uk) (stúpinʹ), ро́змір (rózmir), величи́на (uk) (velyčýna), мі́ра (uk) (míra)
- Zazaki: rêzey n
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(computing) individual area of storage
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Adjective
extent
- (obsolete) Extended.
See also
Latin
Verb
extent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of extō