extensive
Etymology
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Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extensīvus, from Latin extensus.
Pronunciation Adjectiveextensive
- Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
- (figurative) Considerable in amount.
- I have done extensive research on the subject.
- Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.
- 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 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.
- (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
- French: étendu
- German: umfangreich
- Italian: vasto, molto, estenso, esteso, grande, ricco
- Portuguese: extensivo
- Russian: обши́рный
- Spanish: extenso
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