Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

subextensive en · ADJ

Etymology

From sub- + extensive.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having a combined system entropy that is less than the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
    • According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1. 2000, Roman Teisseyre, Eugeniusz Majewski, Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior, →ISBN:
  2. (not-comparable) Less than extensive.
    • Though the subextensive panhysterectomy might be sufficient for the early and small regions, the extensive panhysterectomy is generally performed on the invasive cancer. 1977, Iryo - Volume 31, Issue 1, page 6:
  3. (not-comparable) Indicative of but not fully implying.
    • Well, it's possible to believe being a dog to be subextensive to barking, but it's also possible to believe barking to be subextensive to being a dog. 2006, Dale Jacquette, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism, →ISBN: