Extensional in a sentence

The difference between this and an extensional definition is that extensional definitions list members, and not subsets.

This generality comes at a steep price either typechecking is undecidable ( extensional type theory ), or extensional reasoning is more difficult ( intensional type theory ).

Of primary importance at the Alpha Gold location is that the rocks have been down-dropped significantly by late extensional faulting.

During the mid-Miocene, the area developed an active magmatic arc, on its western side and a back-arc extensional environment to the east.

The extensional drilling focused on further defining the high-grade shoots proximal to the Ore Reserve and demonstrated the growth potential of the project with some impressive results returned.

Additional uplift occurred when major faults developed to the east, especially the creation of Owens Valley from Basin and Range -associated extensional forces.

A divisio is not an extensional definition, but an exhaustive list of subsets of a set, in the sense that every member of the "divided" set is a member of one of the subsets.

An extensional definition would be the list of wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.

A non-intensional statement is also known as an extensional statement, since substitution of co-extensive expressions into it always preserves logical value.

As a volcano grows in size, the stress field underneath the volcano changes from compressional to extensional.

Broadview Press, 1996. p. 49 Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the essence of a term) and extensional definitions (which proceed by listing the objects that a term describes).

For example, a source reference for "scare quotes" and other extensional devices not treated in this article is Postman, Neil.

Philosophical investigations, Part 1 §27–34 An enumerative definition of a concept or term is an extensional definition that gives an explicit and exhaustive listing of all the objects that fall under the concept or term in question.

Shear flows are much easier to study and thus much more experimental data are available for shear flows than for extensional flows.

Subsequent freezing of the ocean after the moons escaped from the resonance may have generated the extensional stresses that created the enormous graben system of Ithaca Chasma on Tethys.

The only extensional languages are artificially constructed languages used in mathematics or for other special purposes and small fragments of natural languages.

The production of large quantities of magma, variously attributed to mantle plumes or to extensional tectonics, citation further pushed sea levels up, so that large areas of the continental crust were covered with shallow seas.

These areas often occur when the regional stress is extensional and the crust is thinned.

This caused strong extensional stresses in the moon's crust, which may have led to cracking.

Verbs are composed of a root followed by one or more extensional suffixes.