superextensive

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ extensive.

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Adjective

superextensive (not comparable)

1. very extensive; vast
2. (physics) Having a combined system entropy that exceeds 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.