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Word: range
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- ecology The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- Line or series of mountains.
- mathematics The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- music Compass - The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- Selection, array. Eg: ''A range of cars''.
- baseball The defensive area that a player can cover.
- 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.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
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Verb:
- intransitive (''followed by'' '''over''') or transitive To travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose.
- intransitive (''mathematics, computing''; ''followed by'' '''over''') Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- transitive classify
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