expansion Definition
ex·pan·sion (-s̸hen)
noun
- an expanding or being expanded; enlargement; dilation
- an expanded thing or part
- the amount, degree, or extent of expansion
- a development or full treatment, as of a topic
- the process or result of working out or giving the full form of a contraction, equation, etc.
- 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 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.
Browse dictionary entries near expansion
- ‹ expansile
- ‹ expansible
- ‹ expanse
- ‹ expanded metal
- ‹ expanded
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- ‹ exotropia
- ‹ exotoxin
- ‹ exotica
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