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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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