extent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: extents
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.)
Senses: glosses: A range of values or locations.
examples: text: I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
text: The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
text: But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: [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.
ref: 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:
glosses: The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2019, Richard E. Smith, Elementary Information Security, page 205:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
glosses: The valuation of property.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
topics: law
glosses: A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
Synonyms: word: extent
word: expanse
word: extension
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: word: extend
word: extense
word: completely
word: entirely
word: wholly
word: to a full extent
word: almost entirely
word: nearly
word: overwhelmingly
word: mostly
word: largely
word: predominantly
word: mainly
word: to a large extent
word: half
word: partially
word: to some extent
word: to an extent
word: somewhat
word: slightly
word: very slightly
word: not at all
word: complete
word: full
word: total
word: partial
word: incomplete
word: slight
word: degree
word: scope
word: quantity
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 52. Completeness
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 51. Part
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 32. Smallness