ADJECTIVE
- defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies
How To Use extensional In A Sentence
- This volcanism seemingly developed in an extensional setting near a shelf margin located in the eastern Neptune Range.
- Anscombe had drawn attention to the fact that perceptual verbs satisfy the tests for non-extensionality or intensionality (see the entry on intensional transitive verbs). The Problem of Perception
- He also questions the stratigraphy of the graben and the timing of north-south extensional tectonics.
- There are two well exhibited main features of the structural geology of the site, east-west trending extensional faults (the Abbotsbury-Ridgeway Fault and the Purbeck Fault), that have undergone contractional reactivation. Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
- These techniques change the performance profile of the function, without affecting its extensional meaning.
- The development of extensional and shear fractures in volcanic areas is usually related to magma emplacement at shallow crustal levels.
- It is concluded that dynamics characteristics of extensional appendages result in increasing the possibility of structure failure when it is under excitation of external force.
- There are sentences which are neither extensional nor intensional; for example, belief-sentences.
- Development of pillow breccia probably occurred along the scarps of normal faults in this extensional setting.
- In other parts of the Selendi and Usak-Gure basins, the group contains only tilted sedimentary units due to the extensional tectonics in the region.