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expansion Definition

ex·pan·sion (-s̸hen)

noun

  1. an expanding or being expanded; enlargement; dilation
  2. an expanded thing or part
  3. the amount, degree, or extent of expansion
  4. a development or full treatment, as of a topic
  5. the process or result of working out or giving the full form of a contraction, equation, etc.
  6. Mech. the expanding in volume of steam in the cylinder of a steam engine after cutoff, or of gas in the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine after explosion

Etymology: LL expansio < L expansus: see expanse

expansion Synonyms

expansion

n.

expansion Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • universe: So the Galilean expansion of the universe does not deprive humans of their significance, or the universe of purpose and value.
  • wpt: Of televised programming lipscomb acknowledged the expansion of wpt 's be leading its.

Converse of object

  • undergo: The answer to ( e ) is that the person is undergoing expansion of consciousness.
  • announce: If we have any doubts about the newly announced expansion, then they are based on past experience with the series.
  • accelerate: They provide evidence of the accelerating expansion of Universe and hence for the existence of the mysterious Dark Energy which drives this process.

Adjective modifier

  • rapid: Due to our rapid expansion across the country for Driving Instructor Learning we are looking for new Driving Instructors.
  • continued: Due to continued expansion, we now have a vacancy for a Field Service Engineer, to be based in the South West.
  • thermal: Even after taking into account thermal expansion, they wondered where the extra water was coming from.
  • planned: The planned expansion is likely to make their situation worse.
  • massive: Due to massive expansion plans we are looking for an experienced Resourcing Manager or Hiring Manager.
  • asymptotic: Approximation of the Beta function The asymptotic expansion for the T score, equation 31, requires the value of.

Modifies a noun

  • slot: Next up to bat is the expansion slot bracket.
  • coefficient: High levels of distortion and residual stress occur, caused by excessive shrinkage of the weld region due to the large thermal expansion coefficient.
  • pack: I will be the first to say Winter Assault didn't live up to my expectations about what an expansion pack should be.

Noun used with modifier

  • schip: Medicaid of woman resulted in personal care health insurance virtually to stay with the schip expansions.
  • airport: They also want a " fundamental rethink " of the government's highly controversial airport expansion program.
  • query: We experimented with this query expansion algorithm on the TREC-7 SDR corpus.
  • macro: This apparent increase in size is due to macro expansion.
  • perturbation: For this to be achieved a rigourous one-loop calculation based on a self-consistent perturbation expansion is needed.
  • filename: The number of arguments to a command that involves filename expansion is limited to 1/6th the number of characters allowed in an argument list.

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