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extensive

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Etymology

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From lateMiddle English, borrowed fromLate Latinextensīvus, fromLatinextensus.

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extensive (comparativemoreextensive,superlativemostextensive)

  1. Having a greatextent; covering a large area;vast.
    • 1776,Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, inThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
      In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of thatextensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour.
  2. (figurative) Considerable in amount.
    I have doneextensive research on the subject.
  3. Serving toextend orlengthen; characterized byextension.
    • 1650,Thomas Browne,Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [],→OCLC:
      For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do nameextensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.
  4. (physics) Having a combined systementropy thatequals thesum 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 wasextensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1.

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wide

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French

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Adjective

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extensive

  1. femininesingular ofextensif

Latin

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Adjective

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extēnsīve

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofextēnsīvus
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