extent

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the distance or area or volume over which something extends

   the vast extent of the desert

2. 2
   noun

   the point or degree to which something extends

   the extent of the damage

3. 3
   noun

   The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.

   I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   adj

   Extended.

   But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,

7. 7
   noun

   A range of values or locations.

8. 8
   noun

   The valuation of property.

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.)