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extensive
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands" [syn: extended ] having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extensive \Ex*ten"sive\, a. [L. extensivus: cf. F. extensif. See Extend .] Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an extensive range ▪ The winner will receive a brand-new kitchen from Magnet’s extensive range. an extensive survey ▪ We conducted an extensive survey asking patients to suggest ways in which the service could be ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vast, far-reaching;" c.1600 of immaterial, c.1700 of material things; from Late Latin extensivus , from extens- , past participle stem of Latin extendere "to stretch out, spread" (see extend ). Earlier in a medical sense, "characterized by swelling" (early ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. In the nature of an extent, wide, widespread.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Extensive may refer to: Extensive property Extensive function Extensional
Usage examples of extensive.
The author subjected the contents of the stomach of one patient to quite an extensive analysis, without finding any abnormality of secretion.
I have done extensive experiments using the new Planck energy accelerator and they have revealed that this prediction is precisely confirmed.
Perth, it is common knowledge that you had a rather extensive investigation of Acton done before you even allowed him through the door to see Annabelle.
Stoth priest, now fully confirmed and entered into his adeptship, went before the Mechanist Union with a proposal to distribute the drug, which retards deterioration of cell generations and extends the number of such replications per organism as well as conferring extensive immunities, throughout the thirty-seven nations.
I found that there is, in fact, a rather extensive literature on visual agnosia in general, and prosopagnosia in particular.
July 1997, Amado Carillo Fuentes underwent an extensive series of plastic surgery operations to change his appearance.
From what Amrita had told me, only the Sikhs had capitalized on the Green Revolution and modern agricultural technology to make a go of their extensive cooperative farms in the north of India.
It includes extensive annotations, a new introduction and all the original photographs and diagrams.
I found attacking the missel-thrushes are situate at the edge of extensive arable fields.
He opposed arteriotomy for this reason, and refused to employ extensive cauterization.
A modified Boeing 707, it carried extensive mission avionics packages for long-range targeting information and identification.
After an extensive tussle, punctuated by whoops, giggles and female screams, the predictable result was obtained with Avis straddling his face, Eris his hips.
The king, whose knowledge of literature was extensive, began to tell anecdotes of classical writers, quoting manuscript authorities which reduced me to silence, and which were possibly invented by him.
In the early 1950s, Sir Solly Zuckerman published extensive biometric studies showing Australopithecus was not as humanlike as imagined by those who favored putting this creature in the lineage of Homo sapiens.
His earliest articles focused on bipolar disorder, summarizing extensive work he did with manic-depressives.