EXPANSION
\ɛkspˈanʃən], \ɛkspˈanʃən], \ɛ_k_s_p_ˈa_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXPANSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
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That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
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Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
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Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.
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The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
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The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
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The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
By Oddity Software
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The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
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That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
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Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
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Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.
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The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
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The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
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The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. An increase in size. 2. The spreading out of any structure, as a tendon. 3. An expanse, a wide area.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Act of expanding; state of being expanded; the enlargement of the surface or size of a body; extension.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A prolongation or spreading out, presented by certain organs. Thus, we say an aponeurotic expansion, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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