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How to pronounce extent in English?

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Type Words
Type of magnitude
Has types area, bound, boundary, compass, coverage, deepness, depth, expanse, frontage, length, surface area, range, reach, scope, ambit, limit, orbit
Derivation extend


the vast extent of the desert.
an orchard of considerable extent.
Type Words
Type of level, point, degree, stage
Derivation extend


the extent of the damage.
the full extent of the law.
to a certain extent she was right.

Examples of extent

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There was also an archival film depicting the full extent of the king's stutter.
From the online.wsj.com
It made me realize the extent to which we sometimes view the plight of Africans.
From the time.com
Orange groves in South Florida also endured flooding, though to a lesser extent.
From the time.com
To the extent I have been an activist, it has been in the company of Tom Cahill.
From the forbes.com
To that extent, this is simply a duplication of previously reported information.
From the sfgate.com
Further tests are due to be carried out to find out the extent of the infection.
From the mirror.co.uk
The prospectus also reveals the extent of Glencore's reliance on it trading arm.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Americans, to the extent they pay attention, seem weary of the whole enterprise.
From the sacbee.com
The request to repair the damaged door should be judged by the extent of damage.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • The point or degree to which something extends; "the extent of the damage"; "the full extent of the law"; "to a certain extent she was right"
  • An extent is a contiguous area of storage in a computer file system, reserved for a file. When a process requires starting to write to a file, file-system management software allocates a whole extent. ...
  • (Extents) The outer boundaries of the objects you have drawn.
  • (Extents) The formal recitation and valuation of the various lands of a manor, and also of the services, rents, profits, etc. of the same.
  • (Extents) The next level of logical database space is called an extent. An extent is a specific number of contiguous data blocks that are allocated for storing a specific type of information.
  • (Extents) {url:/ajax_concepts/44777/?conceptid=255590007&callback=children&child_size=2}
  • (extents) Objects are stored on the disk in one or more extents, which can be files in the file system, data in raw partitions, or a mixture. An extent is divided up into a number of pages and disk i/o is performed in units of a page.
  • The number of elements along the various dimensions.
  • A unit of file allocation, stored in the file's metadata as an offset, length pair. A single extent record can describe many contiguous blocks in a file.