3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extent \Ex*tent"\, a. [L. extentus p. p. of extendere. See
{Extend}.]
Extended. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extent \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
extent
n 1: the point or degree to which something extends; "the extent
of the damage"; "the full extent of the law"; "a mistake
would have to that extent let the whole world know"
2: the distance over which something extends
3: a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky
[syn: {expanse}]
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