EXTANT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of extant in English

(Definition of extant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of extant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of extant

extant
If life is extant, later chemical evolution merely serves as nutrient.
From Phys.Org
Some of those conditions, if not the full dynamic, are clearly extant in the current economy.
From CNBC
The cricetids, including extant hamsters, constitute one of the most diverse families of rodents.
From Phys.Org
No one he knows has knowledge of an extant copy, or has seen it played.
Getting collections online and weaving them into the extant communities is "a very natural place for us to be in the knowledge commons," he said.
If such were the case, a population consisting of nearly all individuals on a vegetarian diet would not be extant for 1,000 years.
From CNN
Extant has a premise that could go places, but based on the pilot, many of those places are awfully, unimpressively familiar.
From NPR
Six years in, the total value of all extant bitcoins is roughly three and a half billion dollars.
The building is important because it is one of only a handful of extant structures where enslaved people lived and worked.
From Phys.Org
It is unclear whether these 1,000 cases are currently extant, or what time span they cover.
Testing life emergence on the other hand is done by the fossils (and extant life).
From Phys.Org
They photographed the model of the building they'd created and pasted it into a picture of the extant city.
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Translations of extant

in Chinese (Traditional)
現存的, 尚存的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
现存的, 尚存的…
in Spanish
existente…
in Portuguese
existente…
in more languages
in French
in Turkish
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
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qui existe encore, existant…
hâlâ mevcut…
nog bestaand…
existující…
bevaret, eksisterende…
masih ada…
ที่มีอยู่…
hiện có…
istniejący…
kvarvarande, bevarad, ännu befintlig…
masih wujud…
noch vorhanden…
som fortsatt eksisterer/finnes…
існуючий, збережений…
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