Definition of "extents" [extents]

• Plural form of extent. (noun)

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• "The DFS layer can be thought of as our file system layer, it understand files these large chunks of storage called extents, how to store them, how to replicate them, etc, but it doesn't understand higher level object constructs nor their semantics."
• "The tenants of the manor, ranging from holders of considerable amounts of land, perhaps as much as a hundred acres, through various gradations down to mere cotters, who held no more than a cottage with perhaps a half-acre or a rood of land, or even with no land at all, are usually grouped in the "extents" or contemporary descriptions of the manors and their inhabitants into several distinct classes."
• "The DFS layer stores the data in what are called "extents"."