Extant 1100 Words You Need Week 20 Day 3

Extant 1100 Words You Need

Extant 1100 Words You Need

/ekˈstænt/ (adj)

describing something which is old but still existing, still in existence, present, surviving, existent, living:

Another point to consider is the following. An object’s causal efficacy may depend on what happens to other objects. E.g., the efficacy of a particular copy of a book may depend on what happens to other copies. If, due to some contingency, only one copy is extant, this copy becomes rare and perhaps more valuable, without any change taking place in the extant copy itself. It might be objected that on this scenario, even if the extant copy has not changed, the microstate of the environment that includes its readers, or the physical world in its entirety, has changed. But if so, we are no longer within the boundaries of a closed system, and the assumption of physical closure is no longer justified.

Source: The book, Causation in Science

Antonym: lost, perished, dead, extinct

Farsi: داراى هستى ،(ک ).پديدار،باقى مانده ،نسخه ء موجود و باقى(ازکتاب وغيره)