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Broadness vs Extent - What's the difference?

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Broadness is a related term of extent.


As nouns the difference between broadness and extent

is that broadness is the state, characteristic, or condition of being broad; breadth while extent is a range of values or locations.

As an adjective extent is

(obsolete) extended.

broadness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state, characteristic, or condition of being broad; breadth.

    • Synonyms

    * breadth

    extent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A range of values or locations.
  • The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
    • The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
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  • (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.

    • See also

    * scope * ("extent" on Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Extended.
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