extensive

Etymology

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extensīvus, from Latin extensus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈtɛn.sɪv/

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Adjective

extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)

1. Serving to extend or lengthen.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.

2. Widespread; covering an extent.

   I have done extensive research on the subject.

3. (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
   • 2000, Roman Teisseyre & ‎Eugeniusz Majewski, Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior, →ISBN:

     According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1.

Adjective

extensive

1. feminine singular of extensif

Adjective

extensīve

1. vocative masculine singular of extensīvus