the.com/extent
How far a thing reaches before it politely stops being itself.
means The size, range, or degree to which something spreads, applies, or matters.
from From Latin extendere, to stretch out — the same root that gives us extend and tendon, the body's literal stretchers.
Legal rootsOnce meant a sheriff's seizure of property by writ.
Measured cousinShares DNA with extension, extensive, and tense.
Spatial to abstractDrifted from land surveyed to ideas weighed.