extent
/ɪkˈstɛnt/ noun B1- A range of values or locations.
- 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.
- A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- The valuation of property.
- A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
Plural extents
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A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to be an egg.
On meeting him for the second time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first.
But see!” Barker drew aside the curtain, and showed that the long, diamond-paned window was open to its full extent.
The sound from a shotgun is to some extent muffled when the discharge is at very close range, as it undoubtedly was in this instance.
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