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Definition range

Etymology

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).

Noun

range (plural ranges)

1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
3. Selection, array.
4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
7. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
8. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
9. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
10. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
11. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
12. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
13. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
14. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
15. (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
16. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
17. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
18. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
19. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
20. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
21. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

Verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
5. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
6. (transitive) To classify.
7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
9. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
10. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
12. To separate into parts; to sift.
13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

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