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Extent

Extent Meaning & Definition
Extent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Extent?

[n] the distance or area or volume over which something extends; "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent"
[n] 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"

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Extent In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*tent"\, a. [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See {Extend}.] Extended. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\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.

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