extent
n. uncountablen. the size, amount, or degree of something. You use it to describe how far something goes or how much it covers.
n. the area, degree, or amount to which something happens or exists. Often used in prepositional phrases to quantify the scope of an action or condition.
We do not yet know the full extent of the damage.
The manager was surprised by the extent of the repairs needed to fix the office air conditioning.
While the report acknowledges the problem, it fails to grasp the true extent of the environmental degradation caused by decades of unregulated industrial runoff.
From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)
Commonly used in the fixed phrases 'to a certain extent' or 'to the extent that'.
to the extend thatto the extent thatLearners often confuse the noun 'extent' with the verb 'extend'.