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extent

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extent

(1) Contiguous space on a disk reserved for a file or application.

(2) A contiguous set of blocks in a database.


extent
1. US Law a writ authorizing a person to whom a debt is due to assume temporary possession of his debtor's lands
2. Logic another word for extension (sense 6)


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Finding that I took an interest in the subject, he expressed a regret that the true nature and extent of his enterprise and its national character and importance had never been understood, and a wish that I would undertake to give an account of it.
A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to be an egg.
He pointed with a sweeping gesture, as though calling Adam's attention to the extent of the view.
 
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