superextensive en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Late Latin extensīvusder. Middle English extensive English extensive English superextensive From super- + extensive.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) very extensive; vast
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(not-comparable) Having a combined system entropy that exceeds 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: