Pervasion: alternatives and connections

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…

an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition.

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing throug…

a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a dea…

Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.

To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the p…

To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…

Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; ex…

Gently penetrating or pervading.

The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of…

Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.

To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed b…

Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.

Through the whole extent or duration.