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range

/ɹeɪndʒ/ · noun

Meaning

  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. To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  8. To rove over or through.
  9. To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
  10. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  11. (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  12. To classify.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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