extensive

CEFRC1

/ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.
Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

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I have done extensive research on the subject.
According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1.

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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.
1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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

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