ranges

Noun

range (plural ranges)

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 burners (hotplates).
   • Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281
3. Selection, array.
   • We sell a wide range of cars.
4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
5. An area for military training or equipment testing.

   Synonyms:

   base, training area, training ground

6. 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.

   Synonyms:

   distance, radius

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