Word Finder - extent

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A range of values or locations.

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The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.

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The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.

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A contiguous area of storage in a file system.

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The valuation of property.

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A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.

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Extended.

That was the extent of their conversation before Señor Medena cut in.

Extended body has no limits to its extent, though the power of God has divided it in lines discriminating its parts in endless ways.

The coal beds are of enormous extent, and constitute an important element in the wealth of the state.

How did she assess the extent of betrayal already committed by a man she trusted as an uncle?

People will only contribute to the extent that their most personal information is protected.

Of course, to an extent, she did.

Hannah would be a basket case if she only knew the extent of Katie.s issues!

The extent of his wealth was still a mystery.

The cities which they founded - Cornus, Tharros, Sulci, Nora, Caralesare all on the coast of the island, and it is doubtful to what extent they penetrated into the interior.

Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.

No great mountain chain was ever raised by a single effort, and folding went on to some extent in other periods besides those mentioned.

All the cities along the Mississippi River had been marked as contaminated to some extent.

Mossman thinks that the apparent increase at Edinburgh and London in the later decades is to some extent at least real.

Another was the jealousy prevailing in England against the principles of the Roman law on which English equity to a large extent was founded.

Oxen and cows are of secondary importance and the climate is unsuitable for sheep; horses of a small breed are used to some extent.

The cultivation of the vine prevails far more in the province of Cagliari than in that of Sassari, considerable progress having been made both in the extent of land under cultivation and in the ratio of produce to area.

Horses are bred to some extent, while the native race of donkeys is remarkably small in size.

The southern basin of Chad is described under the Shari, which empties its waters into the lake about the middle of the southern shore, forming a delta of considerable extent.

Although having a great extent of coast-line, Argentina has but few really good harbours.

This definition unfortunately ignored the fact that the Andes do not run from north to south in one continuous line, but are separated into cordilleras with valleys between them, and covering in their total breadth a considerable extent of country.

His power was formerly of great extent, but he has now practically no important duty to exercise except that of chairman of the Dover harbour board.

In the yeast cell the nucleus is represented by a homogenous granule, probably of a nucleolar nature, surrounded and perhaps to some extent impregnated by chromatin and closely connected with a vacuole which often has chromatin at its periphery, and contains one or more volutin granules which appear to consist of nucleic acid in combination with an unknown base.

A person having an interest in land can, in general, create a valid interest only to the extent of that interest.

Two gates, the one of the time of Edward I., the other erected early in the 15th century, overlook the marshes; a third stands at a considerable distance west of the town, its position pointing the contrast between the extent of the ancient town and that of the shrunken village of to-day.

I think to the extent the data is not identifiable to a person and is only used to make suggestions to others, people will participate.

During his campaign and his time in office, the extent of the effect of his polio was kept from the public, but the fact he had the disease was commonly known.

To the extent that the Internet is able to increase trade, it increases utility.

To the extent that I get accurate information from other consumers of the product, I will tend to make better choices.

Modern reform in Judaism is parting to some extent from this conception, but it still holds good even among the liberals.

The rocks are mainly basalts and andesites, together with trachytes and phonolites, and some of the basaltic flows are of enormous extent.

Meslin, a mixture of wheat and rye, is produced in the great majority of French departments, but to a marked extent in the basin of the Sarthe.

It is collected in accordance with a register of property (cadastre) drawn up for the most part in the first half of the 19th century, dealing with every piece of property in France, and giving its extent and value and the name of the owner.

In the extent and importance of her colonial dominion France is second only to Great Britain.

The company also owns iron mines, limestone and quartz quarries, large iron-works at Domnarfvet and elsewhere, a great extent of forests and saw-mills, and besides the output of the copper mines it produces manufactured iron and steel, timber, wood-pulp, bricks and charcoal.

We have no information regarding Jerusalem during the period of the captivity, but fortunately Nehemiah, who was permitted to return and rebuild the defences about 445 B.C., has given a fairly clear description of the line of the wall which enables us to obtain a good idea of the extent of the city at this period.

He encouraged learning to the extent of admitting Sir Thomas More into his household, and writing a Latin history of Richard III., which More translated into English.

The Great Barrier Reef forms the prominent feature off the north-east coast of Australia; its extent from north to south is 1200 m., and it is therefore the greatest of all coral reefs.

There is, besides, a powerful determining cause in the uniform character and undivided extent of its dry interior.

Of course, in a territory of such large extent there are many varieties of climate, and the heat is greater along the coast than on the elevated lands of the interior.

A large area of the interior is watered to the extent of 20 to 30 in.

Oysters abound on the eastern coast, and on the shelving banks of a vast extent of the northern coast the pearl oyster is the source of a considerable industry.

There is also to a limited extent a European element present.

At the close of 1905 the area devoted to tillage was 9,365,000 acres, the area utilized for the production of breadstuffs being 6,270,000 acres or over two-thirds of the whole extent of cultivation.

Tasmania is a gold producer to the extent of about 70,000 or 80,000 oz.

Dr Jack, late government geologist of Queensland, considers the extent of the coal-fields of that state to be practically unlimited, and is of opinion that the carboniferous formations extend to a considerable distance under the Great Western Plains.

Kaolin, or porcelain clay, although capable of application to commercial purposes, has not as yet been utilized to any extent, although found in several places in New South Wales and in Western Australia.

About the same time, in the opposite direction, south-west of Sydney, a large extent of the interior was revealed.

Forrest and his party safely crossed the entire extent of Western Australia, and entering South Australia struck the overland telegraph line at Peake station, and, after resting, journeyed south to Adelaide.

The search for gold and the quest for unoccupied pasturage daily diminish the extent of these areas.

In fact, everywhere the demand for goods, especially of those for domestic consumption, fell away; and there was a reduction in the average number of persons employed in the manufacturing industries to the extent of more than 20%.