EXTENT

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estente, ~e land valuation, from extendre, estendre to survey, evaluate, literally, to extend Date: 14th century valuation (as of land) in Great Britain especially for taxation, 2. seizure (as of land) in execution of a writ of ~ in Great Britain, a writ giving to a creditor temporary possession of his debtor's property, 3. the range over which something extends ; scope , the point, degree, or limit to which something extends , the amount of space or surface that something occupies or the distance over which it extends ; magnitude