Definition of Extents. Meaning of Extents. Synonyms of Extents

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Definition of Extents

Extent
Extent Ex*tent", a. [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.] Extended. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Extent
Extent Ex*tent", n. [L. extentus, fr. extendere. See Extend.] 1. Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity. Life in its large extent is scare a span. --Cotton. 2. Degree; measure; proportion. ``The extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be.' --Lubbock. 3. (Eng. Law) (a) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment. (b) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

Meaning of Extents from wikipedia

- design, the CP/M file system uses extents as well, but those do not correspond to the definition given above. CP/M's extents appear contiguously as a single...
- Look up extent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Extent may refer to: Extent (file systems), a contiguous region of computer storage medium reserved...
- physical chemistry and chemical engineering, extent of reaction is a quantity that measures the extent to which the reaction has proceeded. Often, it...
- are defined in the coordinate system of the map. In Western culture, map extents usually have a rectangular shape, so they are defined with a minimum and...
- bookend extents, or extents which are simply slices of existing extents. Extent data items allow for this by including an offset into the extent they are...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hong Kong use English and Chinese as mediums of instruction to varying extents. International schools in Hong Kong use various curricula, the most common...
- vocabulary, is seen in European languages (mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Catalan, and Sicilian) owing to the proximity of Europe and...
- is indexed by the length of the free extents, while the other is indexed by the starting block of the free extents. This dual indexing scheme allows for...