What does extent mean?
Definitions for extent
ɪkˈstɛntex·tent
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Princeton's WordNet
extent(noun)
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"
extent(noun)
the distance or area or volume over which something extends
"the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent"
Wiktionary
extent(Noun)
A range of values or locations.
Etymology: From extente, from estente, from extendre, from extendere (See extend.)
extent(Noun)
The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
Etymology: From extente, from estente, from extendre, from extendere (See extend.)
extent(Noun)
A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
Etymology: From extente, from estente, from extendre, from extendere (See extend.)
Webster Dictionary
Extent(adj)
extended
Etymology: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]
Extent(noun)
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
Etymology: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]
Extent(noun)
degree; measure; proportion
Etymology: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]
Extent(noun)
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
Etymology: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]
Extent(noun)
a process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor
Etymology: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]
Freebase
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.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'extent' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1006
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'extent' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1263
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'extent' in Nouns Frequency: #447
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of extent in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of extent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of extent in a Sentence
To the extent that a president tries to use his own authority to pressure executive branch officials to be loyal to him rather than to the law, that undermines on a fundamental level the governmental level the structure that we've set up.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Terrill's damages will be based on the breadth of her reputation and the value of that reputation in her industry, the potential damages to Terrill will be in accordance with the extent of her career and reputation as a journalist and the extent of the audience Gawker has disseminated the information to.
And so, to the extent the president needs me, I will be available to him, i remain loyal to the president and to the cause.
What we have at Virtu is a technology plant that is multi-asset class, multi-currency and very low latency and very efficient and very scaled, to the extent we can use that asset and leverage that asset into what I will call related and ancillary businesses ... I'm very open to it.
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- مدى, اتساعArabic
- обхват, размер, протежениеBulgarian
- rozsah, rozměrCzech
- Umfang, Ausmaß, GrößeGerman
- έκτασηGreek
- extensiónSpanish
- حدPersian
- lukualue, alue, laajuus, määräFinnish
- mesureFrench
- farsaingeachdScottish Gaelic
- מידהHebrew
- misuraItalian
- 程度Japanese
- វិសាលភាព, វិសាលភាពក៏ដោយKhmer
- ڕادهKurdish
- mokorahiMāori
- bereik, mateDutch
- stopieńPolish
- extensãoPortuguese
- mărime, volum, întindereRomanian
- мера, степень, размер, объёмRussian
- степен, обим, размераSerbo-Croatian
- dereceTurkish
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