expansion
Etymology
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Etymology
From French expansion, from Latin expānsiō.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɪkˈspænʃən/
expansion
An act, process, or instance of expanding. - The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change. - 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.
- Synonyms: coefficient of thermal expansion
- Hypernyms: temperature coefficient
- (building) A new addition.
- My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
- Synonyms: annex
- A product to be used with a previous product.
- This expansion requires the original game board.
- That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
- (steam engines) 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.
- 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.
- Expansion of acronyms is often helpful for nonexpert readers (anacronyms excluded).
- The string of text thus substituted.
- 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.
- (video games) Short for expansion pack.
- (antonym(s) of “act of expanding”): contraction, shrinkage
- French: expansion
- German: Expansion
- Italian: espansione
- Portuguese: expansão
- Russian: расшире́ние
- Spanish: expansión
- Spanish: expansión, dilatación
- Russian: пристро́йка
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