Definitions for extent
ɪkˈstɛntex·tent

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.6 / 5 votes

1. extentnoun

   the point or degree to which something extends

   "the extent of the damage"; "the full extent of the law"; "to a certain extent she was right"

2. extentnoun

   the distance or area or volume over which something extends

   "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. extentnoun

   A range of values or locations.

2. extentnoun

   The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.

   The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.

3. extentnoun

   A contiguous area of storage in a file system.

4. Etymology: From extente, from estente, from extendre, from extendere (See extend.)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Extentnoun

   Etymology: extentus, Latin.

   1. Space or degree to which any thing is extended.

   If I mean to reign
   David’s true heir, and his full sceptre sway
   To just extent over all Israel’s sons. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   2. Communication; distribution.

   An emperour of Rome
   Troubled, confronted thus, and for th’ extent
   Of equal justice us’d with such contempt. William Shakespeare, Tit. Andron.

   3. Execution; seizure.

   Let my officers
   Make an extent upon his house and land,
   And turn him going. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

2. Extentparticiple.

   Extended.

   Etymology: from extend.

   Both his hands most filthy feculent,
   Above the water were on high extent,
   And fain’d to wash themselves incessantly. Edmund Spenser, Fai. Queen.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. extent

   Extent generally refers to the size, area, scope, degree or range of something. It can indicate the amount, volume or space that something occupies or covers, or the length of time something continues. Essentially, it is a measure of how much, how large, how long, or how far. It can be applied to various contexts such as a geographical area, a period of time, or the intensity of a situation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Extentadjective

   extended

2. Extentnoun

   space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity

3. Extentnoun

   degree; measure; proportion

4. Extentnoun

   a peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment

5. Extentnoun

   a process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor

6. Etymology: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Extent

   An extent is a contiguous area of storage in a computer file system, reserved for a file. When a process creates a file, file-system management software allocates a whole extent. When writing to the file again, possibly after doing other write operations, the data continues where the previous write left off. This reduces or eliminates file fragmentation and possibly file scattering too. An extent-based file system need not require limiting each file to a single, contiguous extent. The following systems support extents: ⁕ASM - Automatic Storage Management - Oracle's database-oriented filesystem. ⁕BFS - BeOS, Zeta and Haiku operating systems. ⁕Btrfs - GPL'd extent based file storage for Linux. ⁕Ext4 - Linux filesystem. ⁕Files-11 - Digital Equipment Corporation OpenVMS filesystem. ⁕HFS and HFS Plus - Hierarchical File System - Apple Macintosh filesystems. ⁕HPFS - High Performance File Syzstem - OS/2 and eComStation. ⁕JFS - Journaled File System - Used by AIX, OS/2/eComStation and Linux operating systems.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'extent' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1006

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'extent' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1263

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'extent' in Nouns Frequency: #447

How to pronounce extent?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say extent in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of extent in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of extent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of extent in a Sentence

1. Raghuram Rajan:

   With many central banks with their foots firmly pressed on the accelerator, the variety of new aggressive monetary policies, it's not clear that we've really benefited tremendously, to some extent we may have reduced the room for other policies or reduced the incentives for other policies. We're not quite sure what the fundamental value of any asset is.

2. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   The time for squeezing, squeezing, squeezing is over, we're going to need to look at our fundamental defense strategy and our national security strategy and ask ourselves difficult questions about what we can't do or can't do to the extent this country has become accustomed.

3. Amrita Sen from Energy Aspects:

   We are likely to get a sell-off this week as the extent of the Syrian strikes have been muted and, in general, calmer nerves prevail in Washington.

4. Patricia Roque:

   This was the most traumatic experience of our lives. I feared that the suspect would kill us because of what we looked like — because we are Asian, we are demanding a full investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department and demand that this case be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

5. Hou Wey Fook:

   It's like a deja vu of what happened in 2008 but of course the reasons are very different. In 2008, the banks were broken, financial markets were frozen, this time, there are some areas where liquidity has dried up like in bonds but not to the same extent as in 2008.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=extent
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Extent
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=extent
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extent
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=extent