different between extent vs capaciousness

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)

1. A range of values or locations.
2. 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.
3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
4. The valuation of property.
5. (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

1. (obsolete) Extended.

See also

• scope
• extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

extent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?

English

Etymology

capacious +? -ness

Noun

capaciousness (usually uncountable, plural capaciousnesses)

1. The quality of being capacious.
   • 1818 George Crabb - English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order

     Capacity is the abstract of capax, receiving or apt to hold ; it is therefore applied to the contents of hollow bodies : capaciousness is the abstract of capacious and is therefore applied to the plane surface comprehended within a given space. hence we speak of the capacity of a vessel; and the capaciousness of a room.