Complete Definition of "range"

see|rangé
English

Pronunciation
IPA|/ɹeɪnd�/, SAMPA|/r\eIndZ/
audio|en-us-range.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

  1. Line or series of mountains.
  2. Large fuel-burning stove.
  3. Selection, array. Eg: A range of cars.
  4. Area used for shooting, artillery, etc.
  5. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  6. mathematics The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  7. statistics The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data. It is calculated by subtracting the smallest observations from the greatest.
  8. The distance to a target, or to the subject of discussion.

#:We could see the ship at a range of five miles.

  1. sports baseball The defensive area that a player can cover.

#: Jones has good range for a big man.

  1. music Compass - The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  2. ecology The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

Antonyms
domain (5)

Translations
trans-top|set of values
Czech: obor hodnot m
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French: gamme f
Gweman: Bereich m
Spanish: gama f
Swedish: bergskedja c (1), urval n (3), skjutbana c (4), värdemängd c (5)
Telugu: ప���తి (paMkti), వర�స (varusa), శ�ర�ణి (SreaNi?)
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Verb
en-verb|ranges|ranging|ranged

  1. intransitive (followed by over) To travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose.
  2. intransitive (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.

#:The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.

  1. transitive classify

#* 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: <http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/metaphysics/>. Book 1, Part 5.
#*: they seem, however, to range the elements under the head of matter;

Translations

Portuguese: [3] classificar

Related terms
firing range
shooting gallery
oven

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Category:English intransitive verbs

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