Meaning of Extent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A range of values or locations.
2. The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
3. A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
4. The valuation of property.
5. A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
6. A former tent

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Examples

“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.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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