different between expansion vs widening

English

Etymology

From French expansion, from Latin exp?nsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?spæn??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?pan?sion

Noun

expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions)

1. An act, process, or instance of expanding.

2. The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
3. A new addition.

4. A product to be used with a previous product.

5. That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
   • 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel

     the starred expansion of the skies

6. (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.

Antonyms

• (act of expanding): contraction, shrinkage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin exp?nsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??.sj??/

Noun

expansion f (plural expansions)

1. expansion

Descendants

• ? German: Expansion

Further reading

• “expansion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin exp?nsi?, attested from 1776.

Noun

expansion c

1. expansion

Declension

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?d?n??/

Adjective

widening (not comparable)

1. Growing wider or farther apart.
   • 1920 — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

Noun

widening (plural widenings)

1. The action of the verb widen.
   • 1887 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla

Translations

Verb

widening

1. present participle of widen

Anagrams

• indewing