Definition of Extent

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Extent

Extended.

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.

Degree; measure; proportion.

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.

A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

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Extent Quotations

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the Great

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch

Extent Translations

extent in Italian is volume, dilatazione
extent in Norwegian is omfang, utstrekning
extent in Spanish is magnitud, perimetro

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