Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ɛksˈtɛn.sɪv/
extensive
- 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
- 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.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
- French: étendu
- German: umfangreich
- Italian: vasto
- Portuguese: extensivo
- Russian: обши́рный
- Spanish: extenso
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