range

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. The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
8. The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
9. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
10. The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
11. The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
12. 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.
13. The defensive area that a player can cover.
14. The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
15. The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
16. A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
17. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
18. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
19. (obsolete) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
20. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
21. In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

scope

cooking stove

radio range

range of mountains

chain of mountains

kitchen stove

launch base

kitchen range

range of a function

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).

Bookmark this

Improve your pronunciation