extensive quantity

Quantities {extensive quantity}| can be sums or differences over time or space ranges. They are total amounts: distance, area, volume, time interval, moles, energy, heat, entropy, charge, and mass. They have magnitude but no direction. Measuring extensive quantities requires accumulation. Extensive quantities are intensive-quantity integrals.

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