Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The range, magnitude, or distance over which a thing extends.
- noun The degree to which a thing extends.
- noun An extensive space or area.
- noun In Great Britain, a writ allowing a creditor to seize a debtor's property temporarily.
- noun The seizure in execution of such a writ.
- noun Archaic An assessment or valuation, as of land in Britain, especially for taxation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extended.
- To assess; lay on or apportion, as an assessment.
- To be assessed; be rated for assessment.
- noun The space or degree to which a thing is or may be extended; length; compass; bulk; size; limit: as, the extent of a line; a great extent of country or of body; the utmost extent of one's ability.
- noun Communication; distribution; bestowal.
- noun In law: Valuation; specifically, a census or general valuation put upon lands, for the purpose of regulating the proportion of public subsidies or taxes exigible from them, as well as for ascertaining the amount of the casualties due to the superior.
- noun A peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the crown, differing from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, in that under it the body, lands, and goods of a debtor may be all taken at once, in order to compel the payment of the debt.
- noun Logical extension or breadth.
- noun A violent attack.
- noun The length and the breadth (of power, greatness, duty, or the like).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Extended.
- noun Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length
- noun Degree; measure; proportion.
- noun 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.
- noun A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
range ofvalues orlocations . - noun The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
- noun computing A
contiguous area ofstorage in afile system .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the distance or area or volume over which something extends
- noun the point or degree to which something extends
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The opposition must exaggerate, alarm and seek to divide - for that, to a certain extent, is their job.
The Courage to Care 1985
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Fortunately Persian, up to a certain extent, is an exceedingly easy language, more so even than Italian.
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They turned aside from the run-way at a place indicated by Binu Charley, and, sometimes crawling on hands and knees through the damp black muck, at other times creeping and climbing through the tangled undergrowth a dozen feet from the ground, they came to an immense banyan tree, half an acre in extent, that made in the innermost heart of the jungle a denser jungle of its own.
Chapter 24 2010
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This past Friday marked a resumption of their collaboration to a certain extent, when Warren launched the new webcomic, Montague Terrace, at ACT-I-VATE.
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The cleared space was fully half an acre in extent and carefully fenced against the wild pigs.
Chapter 24 2010
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To a certain extent Jon Stewart and Colbert are the same way.
CNN fires Rick Sanchez after radio rant Lisa de Moraes 2010
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And I think to a certain extent two years in an administration, the public is very unhappy.
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Q: To what extent is your decision to install a solar system on your residence a symbolic act, or a substantive act?
Maldives President Nasheed seeks a low-carbon path Juliet Eilperin 2010
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No one can deny the positive evolution of race relations in the United States — to what extent is arguable, even with numbers available, which makes sense.
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All those complaints about unbalanced schedules and Team A having an easier slate of conference games than Team B during a given season could be minimized to a certain extent with more conference games.
ACC athletic directors consider expanded conference schedules Mark Giannotto 2010
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