extensional
Speech parts
1. extensional - Adjective
2. extensional - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies
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Examples
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.
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.
An extensional definition would be the list of wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.
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).