Definition of "range" in Anglais

noun

A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
Selection, array.
- We sell a wide range of cars.
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
An area for military training or equipment testing.
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
- One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
(mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
(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.
(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- Jones has good range for a big man.
(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
(programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
(obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- , "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take a range all the world over.
(US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.

verb

(intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
(transitive) To rove over or through.
- to range the fields
(obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
(transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
(intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
(transitive) To classify.
- to range plants and animals in genera and species
(intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
(intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
(transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
(transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
(military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- to range the coast
(baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.