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superextensive

superextensive adjective: very extensive; vast.

Adjective

superextensive (not comparable)

  1. very extensive; vast
  2. 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

Origin of superextensive

From super- + extensive.

Questions about superextensive

What does superextensive mean?
Superextensive means very extensive; vast.
What part of speech is superextensive?
Superextensive is an adjective.

Words near superextensive in the dictionary

  1. superexpressions
  2. superexpressive
  3. superexquisite
  4. superextensile
  5. superextensions
  6. superextensive
  7. superextensivity
  8. superextra
  9. superextraordinarily
  10. superextraordinariness
  11. superextraordinarinesses

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