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Expand
Expand Ex*pand", v. i.
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or
enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by
heat; the heart expands with joy. --Dryden.
ExpandExpand Ex*pand", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expanded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Expanding.] [L. expandere, expansum; ex out + pandere to
spread out, to throw open; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf.
Spawn.]
1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to
diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
--Milton.
2. To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or
stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of
substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to
distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to
contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all
bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
3. (Math.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to
expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
Meaning of Expand from wikipedia
- Joule–Thomson expansion, the
decrease in
temperature of a gas when it
expands Thermal expansion, the
tendency of
matter to
change in shape, area, and...
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Expander may
refer to:
Dynamic range compression operated in
reverse Part of the
process of
signal compression Part of the
process of
companding A component...
- In DOS
memory management,
expanded memory is a
system of bank
switching that
provided additional memory to DOS
programs beyond the
limit of conventional...
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expand is a
program that
converts tab
characters into
groups of
space characters,
while maintaining correct alignment. It is
available in Unix operating...
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Expanding bullets, also
known colloquially as
dumdum bullets, are
projectiles designed to
expand on impact. This
causes the
bullet to
increase in diameter...
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notions of
expanders: edge
expanders,
vertex expanders, and
spectral expanders, as
defined below. A
disconnected graph is not an
expander,
since the boundary...
- The
Expandables is a
Canadian home
renovation television series produced by
Tricon Films & Television,
which premiered January 8, 2015 on HGTV Canada...
- The
expanding Earth or
growing Earth hypothesis ****erts that the
position and
relative movement of
continents is at
least partially due to the volume...
- The
expander cycle is a
power cycle of a
bipropellant rocket engine. In this cycle, the fuel is used to cool the engine's
combustion chamber,
picking up...
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Expanded polyethylene (aka EPE foam)
refers to
foams made from polyethylene.
Typically it is made from
expanded pellets ('EPE bead') made with use of...
