extents
Sayik-STENTS/ɪkˈstɛnts/
- 1Plural of extent.
The survey recorded the maximum and minimum extents of the glacier.
Engineers compared the extents of damage across several buildings.
Note
The plural follows the countable uses of the noun. A file system stores data in extents, contiguous areas of storage. A survey can set several ranges of values side by side. In law, extents are writs directing a sheriff to seize a debtor's property for debts of record owed to the Crown. The obsolete adjective extent, meaning "extended," never takes this -s, since English adjectives do not inflect for number.
extents is a form of extent
extent, noun: The space, area, volume, or point that something reaches or extends to. Full entry
- Forms
- extentextents plural
- Spelling
- extent → extents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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