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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?
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fullness
English
Alternative forms
- fulness
Etymology
From Middle English fulnesse, folnesse, from Old English fulnes, fylnes, fyllnis (“completeness; abundance”), equivalent to full +? -ness. Cognate with Old High German folnissi (“fullness”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?f?ln?s/
- Hyphenation: full?ness
Noun
fullness (usually uncountable, plural fullnesses)
- Being full; completeness.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The degree to which a space is full.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (figuratively) The degree to which fate has become known. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (bodybuilding): A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.
Synonyms
- (being full): entirety, whole; see also Thesaurus:entirety
Derived terms
- fullness of time
Translations
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