extent
SubstantivAdjektivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ɪkˈstɛnt//
A range of values or locations.
Substantiv
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A range of values or locations.
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The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
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.
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A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
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.
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The valuation of property.
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A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
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.
Herkunft
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.)
Adjektiv
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veraltetExtended.
But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,
Formen
- Plural
- extents