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
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard 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
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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