extent
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extent
- /ɪkˈstɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
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.)
noun extents
- A range of values or locations.
- The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends. I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
- 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.
- The valuation of property.
- 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.
adjective
- Extended. But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,
