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Word: range (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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