Definitions for expansion

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expansion ex·pan·sion

Spelling: [ik-span-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪkˈspæn ʃən/

Expansion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 360 anagrams from letters in expansion (aeinnopsx).

Definitions for expansion

noun

1. the act or process of expanding.
2. the state or quality of being expanded.
3. the amount or degree of expanding.
4. an expanded, dilated, or enlarged portion or form of a thing:
5. anything spread out; expanse.
6. Mathematics. the development at length of an expression indicated in a contracted form, as a 2 + 2 ab + b 2 for the expression (a + b) 2 . any mathematical series that converges to a function for specified values in the domain of the function, as 1 + x + x 2 + … for 1/(1 − x) when x
7. Machinery. that part of the operation of an engine in which the volume of the working medium increases and its pressure decreases.
8. an increase in economic and industrial activity (opposed to contraction).
9. additional content for a video game, card game, board game, etc., that significantly expands or alters the way the game is played:

Origin of expansion

1605-15; Late Latin expānsiōn- (stem of expānsiō) a spreading out. See expanse, -ion

Examples for expansion

In an unwonted mood of expansion he turned to Mali-ya-bwana.

Concerns about the proliferation of these labs date back to shortly after the expansion began in the early 2000s.

The Royal Navy, Zambellas said, “is seeing signs of expansion—which is a really weird place to be.”

He also has backed Medicaid expansion and a state-run exchange under Obamacare.

The era of expansion is over, to be replaced by an emphasis on ensuring the security of the existing members.

Such was the law of expansion; the earth was the heritage of the most numerous race.

I will not run the risk of weakening this reasoning by expansion.

The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

He recently put up $50 million for half the cost of the Kennedy Center expansion, where he is chairman of the board.

Here the first step is absorption and expansion, not precipitation.