extent - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'extent' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Extent

[ a.]

- Extended.

2 . Extent

[ n.]

- 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.
- Degree; measure; proportion.
- 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.
- A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

Meaning of 'extent' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . extent

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the distance or area or volume over which something extends

Example in sentence:

an orchard of considerable extent;
the vast extent of the desert

Meaning (2):
- the point or degree to which something extends

Example in sentence:

the extent of the damage;
the full extent of the law;
to a certain extent she was right

Nearby Words:

extacy extance extancy extant extasy extatic extemporal extemporanean extemporaneous extemporarily

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