extensive

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ɛksˈtɛn.sɪv/

Adjective

extensive

1. having a great extent; covering a large area; vast
2. (figurative) considerable in amount.

   I have done extensive research on the subject.

3. Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

     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.

4. (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

Related terms

• extend
• extense
• extent

Translations

• French: étendu
• German: umfangreich
• Italian: vasto
• Portuguese: extensivo
• Russian: обши́рный
• Spanish: extenso

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