ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Subextensive

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Subextensive is an adjective meaning (thermodynamics) Having a combined system entropy that is less than the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

Meaning

(thermodynamics) Having a combined system entropy that is less than the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

More Meanings

  1. (philosophy) Indicative of but not fully implying.
  2. (chiefly medicine) Less than extensive.

Example Sentences

According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t 1.
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.
Though the subextensive panhysterectomy might be sufficient for the early and small regions, the extensive panhysterectomy is generally performed on the invasive cancer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subextremal, sub-extremal, subexponential, subexcedant, superextremal, super-extremal.

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