Definition of Extensional

1. Adjective. Defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies.

Category relationships: Logic
Similar to: Denotative, Denotive
Derivative terms: Extension

Definition of Extensional

1. a. Having great extent.

Definition of Extensional

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to extension. ¹

2. Adjective. Having great extent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extensional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extensional

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Literary usage of Extensional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell (1903)
"The reason which led me, against my inclination, to adopt an extensional view of classes, was the necessity of discovering some entity determinate for a ..."

2. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"The third equation of (49) contains d'w/do? in a term which is omitted when we form the equations of extensional vibration. Thus the complete equations of ..."

3. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1894)
"In the former case the deformation may be called extensional, and its potential energy is proportional to the thickness of the shell, which will be denoted ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on Hydrodynamics and Sound by Alfred Barnard Basset (1900)
"Extensional Vibrations. 152. The equation of motion for extensional vibrations of a straight wire may be obtained immediately from the first of (22). ..."

5. Constructive Text-book of Practical Mathematics by Horace Wilmer Marsh (1914)
"If possible draw a line in none of these extensional relations to AB. Therefore what extensional relations, only, may one line sustain to another? ..."

6. The New Haven Mathematical Colloquium: Lectures Delivered Before Members of by Eliakim Hastings Moore, Ernest Julius Wilczynski, Max Mason (1910)
"Such a class of transformations T", viz., of extensional transformations leaving ... The transformation T being extensional and associated with Q: singular, ..."

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