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extent
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): /?ks?t?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
- 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.
- (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- 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.
Derived terms
- multiextent
- to an extent
- to some extent
Related terms
- extend
- extense
Translations
Adjective
extent
- (obsolete) Extended.
See also
- scope
- extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Verb
extent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?
extent From the web:
- what extent means
- what extent synonym
- what extents are there
- what extension
- which extent or what extent
absorbtivity
English
Etymology
absorbtive +? -ity
Noun
absorbtivity (plural absorbtivities)
- The extent to which a material absorbs light
See also
- Beer's law
absorbtivity From the web:
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