- Look up
extent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Extent may
refer to:
Extent (file systems), a
contiguous region of
computer storage medium reserved...
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physical chemistry and
chemical engineering,
extent of
reaction is a
quantity that
measures the
extent to
which the
reaction has proceeded. Often, it...
- In computing, an
extent is a
contiguous area of
storage reserved for a file in a file system,
represented as a
range of
block numbers, or
tracks on count...
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either vertical extent (how "tall"
something or
someone is) or
vertical position (how "high" a
point is). For an
example of
vertical extent, "This basketball...
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Extent File
System (EFS) is an
older extent-based file
system used in IRIX
releases prior to
version 5.3. It has been su****ded by XFS. EFS
support for...
- A map
extent is the
portion of area of a
region shown in a map. The
limits of a map
extent are
defined in the
coordinate system of the map. In Western...
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Detected and Overthrown. The
Latter Is an
Essay Concerning The True Original,
Extent, and End of
Civil Government) is a work of
political philosophy published...
- vocabulary, is seen in
European languages (mainly
Spanish and to a
lesser extent Portuguese, Catalan, and Sicilian)
owing to the
proximity of
Europe and...
- of a
variable affects its
extent. The
scope of a
variable is
actually a
property of the name of the variable, and the
extent is a
property of the storage...
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treats each PV as
being composed of a
sequence of
chunks called physical extents (PEs). Some
volume managers (such as that in HP-UX and Linux) have PEs...
