adj
Meaning 1
Extended.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
extent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪkˈstɛnt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A range of values or locations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
- The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
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noun
Meaning 4
A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
The valuation of property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 7
the distance or area or volume over which something extends
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the vast extent of the desert
- an orchard of considerable extent
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Broader terms: magnitude
Narrower terms: coverage, frontage, limit, bound, boundary, scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit, area, expanse, surface area, length, depth, deepness
noun
Meaning 8
the point or degree to which something extends
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the extent of the damage
- the full extent of the law
- to a certain extent she was right
Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: degree, level, stage, point
History
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.)
Across languages
Translations
72 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обхват (obhvat) — range of values or locations
- Chinese Mandarin: 範圍 /范围 (fànwéi) — range of values or locations
- Czech: rozsah — range of values or locations
- Danish: omfang — range of values or locations
- Danish: udstrækning — range of values or locations
- Dutch: bereik — range of values or locations
- Dutch: mate — range of values or locations
- Finnish: lukualue — range of values or locations
- Finnish: alue — range of values or locations
- Galician: extensión — range of values or locations
- German: Umfang — range of values or locations
- German: Ausdehnung — range of values or locations
- Hebrew: מידה — range of values or locations
- Italian: estensione — range of values or locations
- Khmer: វិសាលភាព (visaealpheap) — range of values or locations
- Māori: korahi — range of values or locations
- Portuguese: extensão — range of values or locations
- Romanian: mărime — range of values or locations
- Romanian: întindere — range of values or locations
- Scottish Gaelic: farsaingeachd — range of values or locations
- Arabic: اِتِّسَاع (ittisāʕ) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Arabic: مَدَّى (maddā) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Bulgarian: размер (razmer) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Bulgarian: протежение (proteženie) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Chinese Mandarin: 程度 (chéngdu) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Czech: rozměr — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Esperanto: amplekso — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Finnish: laajuus — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Finnish: määrä — space, area, volume to which something extends
- French: mesure — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Galician: extensión — space, area, volume to which something extends
- German: Umfang — space, area, volume to which something extends
- German: Ausmaß — space, area, volume to which something extends
- German: Größe — space, area, volume to which something extends
- German: Grad — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Greek: έκταση (éktasi) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Hindi: विस्तार (vistār) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Italian: misura — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Japanese: 程度 (teido) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Khmer: វិសាលភាពក៏ដោយ (visaealpheap kadaoy) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Central Kurdish: ڕادە (rade) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Lithuanian: apimtis — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Māori: mokorahi — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Māori: nuku — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Māori: korahi — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Plautdietsch: Wied — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Polish: stopień — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Portuguese: extensão — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Romanian: întindere — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Romanian: volum — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Russian: сте́пень (stépenʹ) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Russian: объём (obʺjóm) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Russian: разме́р (razmér) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Russian: ме́ра (méra) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Scottish Gaelic: farsaingeachd — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Serbo-Croatian: степен — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Serbo-Croatian: размера — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Serbo-Croatian: обим — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Serbo-Croatian: stepen — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Serbo-Croatian: razmera — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Serbo-Croatian: obim — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Spanish: extensión — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Thai: ขอบข่าย — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Thai: ขนาด (kà-nàat) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Ukrainian: сту́пінь (stúpinʹ) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Ukrainian: ро́змір (rózmir) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Ukrainian: величи́на (velyčýna) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Ukrainian: мі́ра (míra) — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Zazaki: rêzey — space, area, volume to which something extends
- Finnish: jakso — (computing) individual area of storage
- Finnish: tilavaraus — (computing) individual area of storage
- Zazaki: nısbi — (computing) individual area of storage
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