extensional

3 definitions found

extensional - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Extensional \Ex*ten"sion*al\, a.
     Having great extent.
     [1913 Webster]

extensional - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  extensional
      adj 1: defining a word by listing the class of entities to which
             the word correctly applies

extensional - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  extensional
  
     Extensional properties, e.g. extensional equality, relate to
     the "black-box" behaviour of an object, i.e. how its output
     depends on its input.  The opposite is intensional which
     concerns how the object is implemented.