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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishextente, fromAnglo-Normanextente andOld Frenchestente(valuation of land, stretch of land), fromestendre,extendre(extend) (or from Latinextentus), fromLatinextendere (Seeextend.)

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Noun

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extent (pluralextents)

  1. Arange ofvalues orlocations.
  2. The space, area, volume, point, orabstract location, to which somethingextends.
    I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullestextent of the word.
    Theextent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
    • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, inThe Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:
      But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous largeextent
    • 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 superficialextent, 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]”, inThe New York Times[1]:
      [S]he [Edwina, mother ofTennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' playThe 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 greatestextent possible.
  3. (computing) Acontiguous area ofstorage in afile system.
    • 2019, Richard E. Smith,Elementary Information Security, page205:
      Eachextent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes eachextent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in theextent, and the number of clusters in theextent.
  4. Thevaluation ofproperty.
  5. (law) Awrit directing thesheriff toseize the property of adebtor, for therecovery of debts of record due to theCrown.
  6. A former tent
    Synonym:ex-tent

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Translations

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range of values or locations
space, area, volume to which something extends
(computing) individual area of storage
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Adjective

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extent

  1. (obsolete)Extended.

See also

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Latin

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Verb

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extent

  1. third-personpluralpresentactivesubjunctive ofextō
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