extent

English

Etymology

From Anglo-French extente, from Old French estente "valuation of land, stretch of land", from Old French extendre "extend", from Latin extendere (see extend)

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Noun

extent (plural extents)

1. A range of values or locations.
2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.

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

3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.

Translations

range of values or locations

Chinese: 範圍, 范围, fànwéi Dutch: bereik (nl) n., mate (nl) m. and f. Finnish: lukualue, alue Hebrew: מידה (he)

Hindi: hindi (hi) Romanian: mărime (ro), întindere (ro) Scottish Gaelic: farsaingeachd (gd) f.

space, area, volume to which something extends

Arabic: اتساع (ar) (ittisaa`) m., مدى (ar) (maddaa) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 程度 (cmn) (chéngdu) Finnish: laajuus (fi), määrä (fi) French: mesure (fr) f. German: Umfang (de) m., Ausmaß (de) n., Größe (de) f. Greek: έκταση (el) (éktasi) f. Italian: misura (it) f. Japanese: 程度 (ja) (ていど, teido)

Kurdish: ڕاده‌ (ku) (rade) Polish: stopień (pl) m. Romanian: întindere (ro), volum (ro) Russian: степень (ru) (stépen') f., объём (ru) (ob”jóm) m., размер (ru) (razmér) m., мера (ru) (méra) f. Scottish Gaelic: farsaingeachd (gd) f. Serbian: степен (sr) (stepen) m., размера (sr) (razmera) f., обим (sr) (obim) m.

(computing) individual database extension

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Esperanto: etendiĝo French: étendue, f.

See also

• scope
• Extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Verb

extent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of extō