Definition of "ranging"

In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.

2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184

[…] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]

1999, Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends