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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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term
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûm, IPA(key): /t??m/
- (US) enPR: tûrm, IPA(key): /t?m/
- Rhymes: -??(r)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”).
Doublet of terminus. Old English had termen, from the same source.
Noun
term (plural terms)
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
- A chronological limitation or restriction.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
- A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
- Relations among people.
- Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
- Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (archaic) A menstrual period.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. [from 17th c.]
- 1773, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 42:
- You have been already informed, I have no doubt, of the subject which we have chosen: the adorning a Term of Hymen with festoons of flowers.
- 1773, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 42:
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Pa?engers. Merchandi?e, Produce, &c. carried on the lowe?t Terms.[1]
Hyponyms
- blanket term
- collective term
- umbrella term
- (part of a year): trimester, semester, quarter
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- idiom
- lexeme
- listeme
- word
Verb
term (third-person singular simple present terms, present participle terming, simple past and past participle termed)
- To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
Synonyms
- describe as, designate, dub, name, refer to; see also Thesaurus:denominate
Adjective
term (not comparable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
References
- term on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Clipping of terminal.
Noun
term (plural terms)
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
Etymology 3
Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc.
Verb
term (third-person singular simple present terms, present participle terming, simple past and past participle termed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To terminate one's employment
Synonyms
- axe, fire, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off
Noun
term (plural terms)
- One whose employment has been terminated
Further reading
- term in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- term in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Albanian
Etymology
From ter.
Noun
term m (indefinite plural terma, definite singular terma, definite plural termat)
- foundation, plot of land
Related terms
- ter
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?rm
Noun
term m (plural termen, diminutive termpje n)
- term; A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- (mathematics) term; One of the addends in a sum
Derived terms
- termsgewijs
Anagrams
- remt
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin terminus, via French terme and English term
Noun
term m (definite singular termen, indefinite plural termer, definite plural termene)
- a term (word or phrase)
References
- “term” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin terminus, via French terme and English term
Noun
term m (definite singular termen, indefinite plural termar, definite plural termane)
- a term (word or phrase)
References
- “term” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
term c
- a term (a well-defined word or phrase, in a terminology)
- (mathematics) a term (an operand in addition or subtraction)
- singular of termer (“thermae, Roman baths”) (a facility for bathing in ancient Rome)
Declension
Related terms
- fackterm
- termbank
- terminologi
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