extent
//ɪkˈstɛnt//
formalForms
- Plural
- extents
Definitions
1.A range of values or locations.
2.The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
- 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.
3.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.
4.The valuation of property.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1994
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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.)