extent

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A range of values or locations.
  2. The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
    — I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
  3. A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
    — 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.
  4. The valuation of property.
  5. A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
    — Well, push him out of doors; And let my officers of such a nature Make an extent upon his house and lands. Do this expediently, and turn him going.
形容词 adj.
  1. Extended. obsolete
    — But both his Hands, most filthy feculent, Above the Water were on high extent,

词形变化

extents plural

词源

词源 1
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.)
词源 2
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.)
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