EXTENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extent mean? 

• EXTENT (noun)
  The noun EXTENT has 2 senses:

1. the point or degree to which something extends

2. the distance or area or volume over which something extends

  Familiarity information: EXTENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The point or degree to which something extends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

to a certain extent she was right

Hypernyms ("extent" is a kind of...):

degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)

Derivation:

extend (extend in scope or range or area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The distance or area or volume over which something extends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

an orchard of considerable extent

Hypernyms ("extent" is a kind of...):

magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extent"):

coverage (the extent to which something is covered)

frontage (the extent of land abutting on a street or water)

bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)

ambit; compass; orbit; range; reach; scope (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:)

area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)

length (the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end)

deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)

Derivation:

extend (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point)

extend (span an interval of distance, space or time)

 Context examples 

Commission to the extent of two and ninepence in a fortnight cannot, however limited our ideas, be considered remunerative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The anaerobic oxidation of methane was coupled to some extent with sulfate reduction.

(Methane-eating microorganisms help regulate emissions from wetlands, NSF)

The rate and extent to which the active ingredient or active moiety is absorbed from a drug product and becomes available at the site of action.

(Bioavailability, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the determination of the value, significance, or extent of an entity.

(Assessment Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Any process that decreases the frequency, rate or extent of apoptosis in neutrophils, eosinophils or basophils.

(Negative Regulation of Myeloid Cell Apoptotic Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Of short duration, extent, or distance.

(Brief, NCI Thesaurus)

TG02 also inhibits, to a lesser extent, TYK2, TYRO3, STAT5 and P38delta.

(CDK/JAK2/FLT3 Inhibitor TG02 Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Any cellular process that reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell adhesion.

(Cell Adhesion Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

The nature and extent of the microbial stability varied across the people studied, such that each person had a unique microbial signature.

(Skin microbes fairly stable over time, NIH)

Terminology associated with the coronary vessel disease extent codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Vessel Disease Extent Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)