EXPANSION


Meaning of EXPANSION in English

[ex.pan.sion] n (1611) 1: expanse

2: the act or process of expanding "territorial ~"

3: the quality or state of being expanded

4: the increase in volume of working fluid (as steam) in an engine cylinder after cutoff or in an internal combustion engine after explosion

5. a: an expanded part b: something that results from an act of expanding "the book is an ~ of a lecture series"

6: the result of carrying out an indicated mathematical operation: the expression of a function in the form of a series -- ex.pan.sion.al adj

Merriam-Webster English vocab.      Английский словарь Merriam Webster.