1. noun /ɹeɪndʒ/
a) Line or series of mountains
Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
b) A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates
We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
See Also: shooting gallery, oven
2. verb /ɹeɪndʒ/
The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
b) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) 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.
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