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Definition of Extent

Extent
Extent Ex*tent", a. [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.] Extended. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Extent
Extent Ex*tent", n. [L. extentus, fr. extendere. See Extend.] 1. 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. Life in its large extent is scare a span. --Cotton. 2. Degree; measure; proportion. ``The extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be.' --Lubbock. 3. (Eng. Law) (a) 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. (b) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

Meaning of Extent from wikipedia

- Look up extent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Extent may refer to: Extent (file systems), a contiguous region of computer storage medium reserved...
- A map extent is the portion of area of a region shown in a map. The limits of a map extent are defined in the coordinate system of the map. In Western...
- physical chemistry and chemical engineering, extent of reaction is a quantity that measures the extent to which the reaction has proceeded. Often, it...
- AdExtent (formally Semantinet) is an Israeli startup company dedicated to developing RTB Display technologies for various ad platforms. The brainchild...
- of a variable affects its extent. The scope of a variable is actually a property of the name of the variable, and the extent is a property of the storage...
- In computing, an extent is a contiguous area of storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count...
- treats each PV as being composed of a sequence of chunks called physical extents (PEs). Some volume managers (such as that in HP-UX and Linux) have PEs...
- Extent File System (EFS) is an older extent-based file system used in IRIX releases prior to version 5.3. It has been su****ded by XFS. EFS support for...
- Divinely Uninspired to a ****ish Extent is the debut studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. It was released on 17 May 2019 through Vertigo...
- for around 700,000 years. While the shallowest permafrost has a vertical extent of below a meter (3 ft), the deepest is greater than 1,500 m (4,900 ft)...