# 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: /ɪkˈstɛnt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt
* 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, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: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.
** 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times‎:[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
* (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
** 2019, Richard E. Smith, Elementary Information Security, page 205:Each extent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes each extent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in the extent, and the number of clusters in the extent.
* 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.
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], lines 1117-20:Well, push him out of doors; And let my officers of such a nature Make an extent upon his house and lands. Do this expediently, and turn him going.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:extent

#### Derived terms

* extentive
* extentless
* extent of occurrence
* multiextent
* page extent
* to a greater extent
* to a great extent
* to a large extent
* to a lesser extent
* to an extent
* to some extent

#### Related terms

* extend
* extense

#### Translations

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### Adjective

extent
* (obsolete) Extended.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,

### See also

* scope
* extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Latin
### Verb

extent
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of extō