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   range

   /rānj/

   noun

   • 1. the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale: "the cost is thought to be in the range of $1-5 million a day" Similar spanscopecompassradiusscalegamutreachsweepextentareafieldorbitambitprovincerealmdomainhorizonlatitudelimitsboundsconfinesparametersvaryfluctuatedifferextendstretchreachcovergorunpass
   • ▪ the scope of a person's knowledge or abilities: "he gave some indication of his range"
   • ▪ the compass of a person's voice or a musical instrument: "she was gifted with an incredible vocal range"
   • ▪ the extent of time covered by something such as a forecast.
   • ▪ the area or extent covered by or included in something: "an introductory guide to the range of debate this issue has generated"
   • ▪ the set of values that a given function can take as its argument varies.
   • 2. a set of different things of the same general type: "the area offers a wide range of activities for the tourist" Similar assortmentvarietydiversitymixturecollectionarraysetselectionchoicepickkindsorttypeclassrankordergenusspecies
   • 3. the distance within which something can be reached or perceived: "something lurked just beyond her range of vision"
   • ▪ the maximum distance to which a gun will shoot or over which a missile will travel: "these rockets have a range of 30 to 40 miles"
   • ▪ the maximum distance at which a radio transmission can be effectively received: "planets within radio range of Earth"
   • ▪ the distance that can be covered by a vehicle or aircraft without refueling: "the vans have a range of 125 miles"
   • ▪ the distance between a camera and the subject to be photographed: "handheld shots taken at extreme telephoto ranges can be pretty wobbly affairs"
   • ▪ the horizontal direction and length of a survey line determined by at least two fixed points.
   • 4. a line or series of mountains or hills: "the coastal ranges of the northwest" Similar rowchainsierracordilleraridgemassiflinefilerankstringseries
   • ▪ a series of townships extending north and south parallel to the principal meridian of a survey. US
   • ▪ a line defined by landmarks or beacons, used to locate something offshore, especially a navigable channel or a hazard.
   • 5. a large area of open land for grazing or hunting: "on dude ranches, tourists put on crisp new western gear to ride the range" Similar pasturepasturagepasturelandgrassgrasslandgrazing landleypaddockcroftliterary:leameadgreenswardswardshielingbentbawnrunveldalpbocagepotrero
   • ▪ an area of land or sea used as a testing ground for military equipment: "the cost of dealing with unexploded shells and bombs on former military ranges"
   • ▪ an open or enclosed area with targets for shooting practice: "he went down to the ranges to practice shooting"
   • ▪ the area over which a plant or animal is distributed: "the chimpanzee extensively overlaps the gorilla in its forest range"
   • 6. an electric or gas stove with several burners and one or more ovens: "a wood-burning kitchen range" Similar stovecooking stovekitchen stovetrademark:Aga
   • 7. a course of masonry extending from end to end at one height.
   • ▪ a row of buildings.
   • 8. the direction or position in which something lies: archaic "the range of the hills and valleys is nearly from north to south"

   verb

   • 1. vary or extend between specified limits: "patients whose ages ranged from 13 to 25 years" Similar varyfluctuatedifferextendstretchreachcovergorunpass
   • 2. place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified order or manner: "a table with half a dozen chairs ranged around it" Similar line upaligndraw upput/set in orderorderplacepositionarrangedisposeset outarrayrank
   • ▪ run or extend in a line in a particular direction: "he regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path"
   • 3. place oneself or be placed in opposition to (a person or group): British "they were no match for the overwhelming forces ranged against them"
   • 4. (of a person or animal) travel or wander over a wide area: "patrols ranged thousands of miles deep into enemy territory" Similar roamrovetraversetraveljourneywanderstraydriftramblemeanderamblestrolltraipsewalkhiketrekbackpackrare:peregrinate
   • ▪ (of a person's eyes) pass from one person or thing to another: "his eyes ranged over them"
   • ▪ (of something written or spoken) cover or embrace a wide number of different topics: "tutorials ranged over a variety of subjects"
   • 5. obtain the range of a target by adjustment after firing past it or short of it, or by the use of radar or laser equipment: "radar-type transmissions which appeared to be ranging on our convoys"
   • ▪ (of a projectile) cover a specified distance.
   • ▪ (of a gun) send a projectile over a specified distance.

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘line of people or animals’): from Old French range ‘row, rank’, from rangier ‘put in order’, from rang ‘rank’. Early usage also included the notion of ‘movement over an area’.

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 25409175Declare a Range relative to the Active Cell with VBA

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   I need to declare a range object relative to the Active Cell. The problem is, the number of rows and columns I want to select is different each time the macro runs. For example, I have two variab...

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 37689847excel - Creating an Array from a Range in VBA - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 37689847

   Jun 8, 2016 · The reason is simple: If for any reason your range is reduced to 1 element range, as far as i know the command Range ().Value will not return a variant array but just a variant and you will not be able to assign a variant variable to a variant array (previously declared).

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 3606697How to set limits for axes in ggplot2 R plots? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 3606697

   Aug 31, 2010 · Basically you have two options. scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-5000, 5000)) or. coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-5000, 5000)) Where the first removes all data points outside the given range and the second only adjusts the visible area. In most cases you would not see the difference, but if you fit anything to the data it would probably change the ...

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 993358datetime - Creating a range of dates in Python - Stack Overflow

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   Feb 2, 2012 · I want to create a list of dates, starting with today, and going back an arbitrary number of days, say, in my example 100 days. Is there a better way to do it than this? import datetime a = datet...

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 11480042Python 3 turn range to a list - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 11480042

   Jul 14, 2012 · You can just construct a list from the range object: my_list = list (range (1, 1001)) This is how you do it with generators in python2.x as well. Typically speaking, you probably don't need a list though since you can come by the value of my_list [i] more efficiently (i + 1), and if you just need to iterate over it, you can just fall back on range.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 3373256python - Set Colorbar Range - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 3373256

   The colorbar range can be set by passing a tuple to clim= kwarg in the pcolormesh / pcolor call as well. plt.pcolormesh(X, Y, v, cmap=cm, clim=(-4, 4)) If the colorbar range has to be updated after the pcolormesh call, then the easiest way is plt.clim as others have mentioned.

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 12199318VBA: Selecting range by variables - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 12199318

   I want to select the formatted range of an Excel sheet. To define the last and first row I use the following functions: lastColumn = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Column - 1 + ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 13157363Create excel ranges using column numbers in vba? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 13157363

   Oct 31, 2012 · How is it possible to create a range in vba using the column number, rather than letter?

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 3895478Does JavaScript have a method like "range ()" to generate a range...

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 3895478

    Oct 9, 2010 · OK, in JavaScript we don't have a range() function like PHP, so we need to create the function which is quite easy thing, I write couple of one-line functions for you and separate them for Numbers and Alphabets as below:

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 169511shell - How do I iterate over a range of numbers defined by...

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 169511

    Oct 4, 2008 · How do I iterate over a range of numbers in Bash when the range is given by a variable? I know I can do this (called "sequence expression" in the Bash documentation): for i in {1..5}; do ...