different between extent vs completeness

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

complete +? -ness

Noun

completeness (usually uncountable, plural completenesses)

1. the state or condition of being complete
2. (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever ${\displaystyle T\vDash \phi }$ is true, then ${\displaystyle T\vdash \phi }$ must also be true, for any wff ? of logic L.

   • THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H:
     (a) If ${\displaystyle \vDash F}$ [or even if ${\displaystyle \aleph _{0}}$-${\displaystyle \vDash F}$], then ${\displaystyle \vdash F}$. If ${\displaystyle E_{1},...,E_{k}\vDash F}$ [or even if ${\displaystyle E_{1},...,E_{k}\ \aleph _{0}}$-${\displaystyle \vDash F}$], then ${\displaystyle E_{1},...,E_{k}\vdash F}$.
     (b) [...]

Synonyms

• (state of being complete): completion, fulfillment; see also Thesaurus:completion

Antonyms

• incompleteness, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion

Translations