From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extent \Ex*tent"\, adjective [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See {Extend}.] Extended. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extent \Ex*tent"\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
extent
noun
1: 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"
2: the distance or area or volume over which something extends; "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "extent": acreage, aesthetic distance, ambit, amount, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, bounds, breadth, broadness, bulk, caliber, capaciousness, clearance, compass, continuum, coverage, cut, deep space, degree, depth, depths of space, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, distance across, divergence, domain, emptiness, empty space, enormousness, expanse, expansion, extension, farness, field, force, fullness, galactic space, gauge, girth, grade, greatness, height, immensity, infinite space, infinity, interstellar space, interval, largeness, latitude, leap, leeway, length, lengthiness, lengths, level, light-years, limit, limitation, linear measures, long time, longitude, longness, magnitude, margin, mark, mass, matter, measure, measurement, mileage, neighborhood, notch, nothingness, nuance, numbers, orbit, order, outer space, overall length, parsecs, pas, peg, period, perpetuity, perspective, piece, pitch, plane, plateau, point, proportion, proportions, province, purview, quantity, quantum, radius, range, ratio, reach, region, remoteness, remove, round, rung, scale, scope, separation, shade, shadow, size, space, spaciousness, span, spatial extension, sphere, spread, stair, standard, step, stint, strength, stretch, stride, substance, sum, superficial extension, surface, sweep, territory, tract, tread, tune, vicinity, void, volume, way, ways, whole, wideness, width, yardage
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