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Expansion

noun

The act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope. Synonym: enlargement. Antonym: contraction.

A function expressed as a sum or product of terms.

A discussion that provides additional information. Synonyms: elaboration, enlargement.

Adding information or detail. Synonym: expanding upon.

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"Expansion" Quotes from Famous Books

... it's foolish to think that cattle companies and individuals, nearly all tenderfeet at the business, can succeed. They may for a time,—there are accidents in every calling,—but when the tide turns, there won't be one man or company in ten survive. I only wish they would, as it means life and expansion for the cattle interests in Texas. As long as the boom continues, and foreigners and tenderfeet pour their money in, the business will look prosperous. Why, even the business men are selling out their stores and going into cattle. But there's a day of reckoning ahead, and there's many ...

— The Outlet • Andy Adams

... maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... Jesus Christ becomes the life of the new man. And what can be more free, more enlarged, than the soul of Jesus? His nature is divine, eternal, boundless. Alas! to what a narrow point does self reduce us! Who that looks at the freedom and expansion of the soul, as it puts on the new man, Christ Jesus, will not crush the reptile self to the dust, that the life of God may again, as in its first creation, ...

— Letters of Madam Guyon • P. L. Upham

... natives as receptacles for their dead. The term "cave" is not to be taken in its usual meaning of a cavity due to erosion by water, or the small recesses due to wind scouring. In the Hawaiian Islands it means a tube or tunnel; a hollow space due to gas expansion; or a hole formed by gas or steam expansion or explosion in the lava while it is still soft or flowing; and which is now accessible where the top has fallen in or where it has reached the face of a cliff. These still exist practically as ...

— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke

... strip of paper. He sealed this in a vessel of glass from which the air was exhausted and the electric current was led to the filament through platinum wires sealed in the glass. Platinum was used because its expansion and contraction is about the same as glass. Incidentally, many improvements were made in incandescent lamps and thirty years passed before a material was found to replace the platinum leading-in wires. The cost of platinum steadily increased ...

— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

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