expansion

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See also: Expansion and expansión

English

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Etymology

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From French expansion, from Latin expānsiō. By surface analysis, expand +‎ -sion.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɪkˈspænʃən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: ex‧pan‧sion

Noun

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expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions)

  2. An act, process, or instance of expanding.
    The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
    2. 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.
      Synonym: coefficient of thermal expansion
      Hypernym: temperature coefficient
    4. (building) A new addition.
      My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
      Synonym: annex
    6. A product to be used with a previous product.
      This expansion requires the original game board.
    8. That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
      • 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:
        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.
    10. (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.
    12. 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).
      1. 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.
    13. (video games) Short for expansion pack.
    14. (economics) an increase in the market value of an economy over time.
    15. (geometry) stretching of geometric objects with flat sides.

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Translations

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

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From Latin expānsiōnem.

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Noun

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expansion f (plural expansions)

  1. expansion

Descendants

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  • → German: Expansion

Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin expānsiō, attested from 1776.[1]

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Noun

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expansion c

  1. expansion

Declension

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Declension of expansion
nominative genitive
singular indefinite expansion expansions
definite expansionen expansionens
plural indefinite expansioner expansioners
definite expansionerna expansionernas
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References

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  1. ^ expansion in Svensk ordbok.
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