expansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspænʃən/
Forms: form: expansions
Etymology: Borrowed from French expansion, from Latin expānsiō. By surface analysis, expand + -sion.
Senses: examples: text: The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
text: […] 1919, a time when African American hopes for a just future following their service in World War I were dashed by violent reassertions of white supremacy, including the efflorescence and expansion of the KKK into the Midwestern and northwestern U.S.
ref: 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
examples: text: Look up the expansion of 1018 steel at stick welding temps and figure out how far this thing's gonna bend once we weld it up.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
synonyms: coefficient of thermal expansion
hypernyms: temperature coefficient
examples: text: My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
A new addition.
synonyms: annex
qualifier: building
examples: text: This expansion requires the original game board.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
A product to be used with a previous product.
examples: text: Mother of mighty Rome's imperial line, / Delight of man, and of the powers divine, / Venus, all-bounteous queen! whose genial power / Diffuses beauty in unbounded store / Through seas, and fertile plains, and all that lies / Beneath the starred expansion of the skies.
ref: a. 1804, James Beattie, “The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius”, in The Poetical Works of James Beattie (The Aldine Edition of the British Poets), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1866, →OCLC, pages 170–171:
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
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.
qualifier: steam engines
examples: text: Expansion of acronyms is often helpful for nonexpert readers (anacronyms excluded).
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
examples: text: The acronym "FNDs" can mean either "functional neurologic disorders" or "focal neurologic deficits", so you'd better use the expansion instead of the acronym, for clarity in this context; readers of this paragraph may not have read, or remember, which definition you used 40 pages earlier.
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
The string of text thus substituted.
topics: video-games
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
Ellipsis of expansion pack.
examples: text: Secondly, the cyclical expansion now taking shape in the United States is starting from a relatively high level; it has much less headroom than earlier expansions that began from a deeply deflated recession base.
ref: 1971, National Industrial Conference Board, The Conference Board Record - Volume 8, page 4:
text: In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions.
ref: 1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 88:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
An increase in the market value of an economy over time.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
Stretching of geometric objects with flat sides.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An act, process, or instance of expanding.
The rewriting of an expression as a longer but equivalent sum of terms.
Derived terms: alloexpansion
antiexpansion
coefficient of thermal expansion
coexpansion
cofactor expansion
compansion
ego-expansion
expansin
expansion adapter
expansional
expansionary
expansion card
expansion cleat
expansion club
expansion cooling
expansionism
expansionist
expansion joint
expansionless
expansion pack
expansion set
expansion slot
expansion tank
expansion team
expansion turbine
expansion vessel
hyperexpansion
in-line expansion
Joule-Thomson expansion
Laplace expansion
macro expansion
microexpansion
multiple expansion
nonexpansion
overexpansion
postexpansion
reexpansion
Sudakov expansion
Taylor expansion
underexpansion
Related terms: expand
expanse
expansive