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English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?spæns?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Adjective

expansive (comparative more expansive, superlative most expansive)

1. Comprehensive in scope or extent.

   an expansive research work

2. Talkative and sociable.
3. Able to be expanded. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity.

Translations

French

Adjective

expansive

1. feminine singular of expansif

Latin

Adjective

exp?ns?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of exp?ns?vus

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

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