extent
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extent/ɪkˈstent/
▶noun
- 1 the area covered by something.
■ the size or scale of something.
- 2 the degree to which something is the case: everyone has to compromise to some extent.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘valuation of property’): from Anglo-Norman Fr. extente, from med. L. extenta, fem. past part. of L. extendere (see extend).
'extent' also found in these Oxford entries:
accelerate
- all
- ambit
- amount
- amplitude
- and
- any
- area
- as
- assume
- autopsy
- big
- big time
- biopsy
- bit
- bulge
- cadastral
- calculation
- camber
- charge
- closed-end
- coextensive
- competence
- complete
- connectivity
- constrain
- coterminous
- coverage
- cutesy
- deal
- deceptively
- degree
- description
- dimension
- diminution
- dispersion
- Domesday Book
- dose-response curve
- double
- down
- downscale
- drunk
- dumb
- earnest
- effect
- elastic limit
- ellagic acid
- enhance
- enough
- environmental audit
