Expansion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPANSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of expanding
• the action of becoming larger or more extensive
• a thing formed by the enlargement or broadening of something
• the increase in the volume of fuel on combustion in the cylinder of an engine, or the piston stroke in which this occurs.
• The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
• That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
• Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
• Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.
• The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
• 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.
• The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
• the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
• a function expressed as a sum or product of terms
• a discussion that provides additional information
• adding information or detail
• act of expanding
• the political strategy of extending a state's territory by encroaching on that of other nations
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• expanse

Words related to EXPANSION

expansionary24 expansions19

Words that contain EXPANSION

expansions19 expansional20 expansionary24 expansionism23 expansionist21 expansionisms24 expansionists22 overexpansion25 expansionistic25 overexpansions26

How to use EXPANSION in a sentence

• There was not the spasmodic effort noticeable in Germany, but a continuous and secure expansion, an undisputed supremacy.
• I think ancient classics and ancient people are alike in the tendency to this kind of expansion.
• By setting down these pressures in a table, and taking their mean, he can determine the effect, with tolerable accuracy, of any particular measure of expansion.
• It would seem to him a phase of unprecedented swift change and expansion and achievement.
• The merchant class and the gentry families of the capital who were allied with it were those chiefly interested in this expansion.
• Shalmaneser I of Assyria was pursuing a determined policy of western and northern expansion.
• In Britain are Little Englanders who dread every step the nation makes in outward expansion, but there are here no Little Americanders.
• Was this expansion a departure from our traditions? 13.
• The expansion of the railway made travel and correspondence easier and national conventions possible even for workmen of small means.
• The system and power having reached their utmost expansion, now begin either to close like flowers at sunset, or break down at once.
• The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.
• Anaximenes explains the coming into being of fire, wind, clouds, water, and earth, as due to a condensation and expansion of the universal principle, air.
• The results of their comparatively unrestricted growth are seen in the establishment and marvellous expansion of the republic.
• I will continue to pray for the consolidation and uninterrupted expansion of your laudable activities in the service of so glorious and mighty a Cause.
• This is the first and most essential step to further expansion in any direction.
• I am truly impressed by the sound progress and expansion of the activities in which the believers of India and Burma are so earnestly and devotedly engaged.
• A fuller acquaintance with the art and art-methods of countries of which but little had before been known has been an element in art expansion.
• There is an intoxication in the gradual and melodious expansion of these curves.
• Expansion through flexible movement is the important point to consider.
• Growing internal need leads to greater external expansion.
• He was later appointed secretary to that important body, which had control over all questions relating to colonial expansion in the new world.
• The Missouri Compromise lifted a barrier to the expansion of the Calhoun idea of free government, having African slavery for its corner-stone.
• This period of expansion came to an end when all the available sites were occupied.

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