extent

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• Extended.

Origin

• From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente ("valuation of land, stretch of land"), from estendre, extendre (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)