expansion
An act, process, or instance of expanding.
Example
“The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.”
Other meanings
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
A new addition.
Related words
- expansionism
- Taylor expansion
- alloexpansion
- antiexpansion
- coexpansion
- compansion
- expansin
- expansional
- expansionary
- expansionist
- expansionless
- hyperexpansion
Word history
From Latin "expānsiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “expansion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.