EXTENSIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extensional mean? 

• EXTENSIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective EXTENSIONAL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EXTENSIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTENSIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Similar:

denotative; denotive (having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming)

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Derivation:

extension (the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to)

 Context examples 

A fault in which the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall, in response to extensional stress.

(Normal faulting, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Cutting diagonally across the mottled plans is the long extensional fault of Inanna Fossa, which stretches eastward 370 miles (600 kilometers) from here to the western edge of the great nitrogen ice plains of Sputnik Planum.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)