Meanings
adjectivesuperextensive (not comparable)
- not comparablenatural sciencesHaving 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
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Italic*super
- Latinsuper
- Latinsuper-
- Englishsuper-
- Late Latinextensīvus
- Middle Englishextensive
- Englishextensive
- Englishsuperextensive
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