subextensive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]subextensive (not comparable)
- (thermodynamics) Having a combined system entropy that is less than 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.
- (chiefly medicine) Less than extensive.
- 1977, Iryo - Volume 31, Issue 1, page 6:
- Though the subextensive panhysterectomy might be sufficient for the early and small regions, the extensive panhysterectomy is generally performed on the invasive cancer.
- (philosophy) Indicative of but not fully implying.
- 2006, Dale Jacquette, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism, →ISBN:
- 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.