extent
/ɪkˈstɛnt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.47 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
Example Sentences
- "I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word."
- "The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words."
- "But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent"
- "The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation."
- "[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible."
- "Each extent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes each extent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in the extent, and the number of clusters in the extent."
Etymology
From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)