[ɛkˈstɛnt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the area covered by something
(e.g: an enclosure ten acres in extent)

- the particular degree to which something is or is believed to be the case
(e.g: everyone will have to compromise to some extent)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘valuation of property, especially for taxation’): from Anglo-Norman French extente, from medieval Latin extenta, feminine past participle of Latin extendere ‘stretch out’ (see extend)