extensive

English

Etymology

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extensīvus, from Latin extensus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/, /ɛkˈstɛn.sɪv/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsten.sɪv/

Adjective

extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)

1. Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

     In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour.

2. (figurative) Considerable in amount.

   I have done extensive research on the subject.

3. 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.

4. (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
   • 2000, Roman Teisseyre, Eugeniusz Majewski, Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior, →ISBN:

     According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1.

Derived terms

• co-extensive
• extensive form game
• extensive property

 

Related terms

• extend
• extense
• extent

 

Translations

wide

• Armenian: ընդարձակ (hy) (əndarjak)
• Bulgarian: пространен (bg) (prostranen)
• Catalan: extens (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣泛 / 广泛 (zh) (guǎngfàn)

• Czech: rozsáhlý (cs) m
• Danish: ekstensiv
• Dutch: uitgebreid (nl)
• Esperanto: vasta (eo)
• Finnish: laaja (fi), avara (fi)
• French: étendu (fr)
• Georgian: ფართო (parto)
• German: umfangreich (de)
• Greek: εκτενής (el) (ektenís), εκτεταμένος (el) (ektetaménos)
• Hungarian: kiterjedt (hu), széles körű (hu)
• Italian: vasto (it), molto (it), estenso (it), esteso (it), grande (it), ricco (it)
• Japanese: 幅広い (ja) (habahiroi)
• Korean: 광대한 (gwangdaehan)
• Latin: extentus, effūsus
• Maori: takiraha, pārāweranui, whakatikotiko, whārahi, rangiwhāwhā, whakahara, whakatikotiko, korahi
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: кумда (kumda)

• Norwegian: omfattende / omfangsrik (no)
• Polish: rozległy (pl)
• Portuguese: extensivo (pt)
• Russian: обши́рный (ru) (obšírnyj), широкий (ru) (širokij)
• Sanskrit: विस्तीर्ग (vistīrṇa), विशाल (sa) (viśāla)
• Spanish: extenso (es), extensivo (es)
• Ukrainian: обши́рний (obšýrnyj), широ́кий (šyrókyj)

See also

• intensive

French

Adjective

extensive

1. feminine singular of extensif

Latin

Adjective

extēnsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of extēnsīvus