expansion
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
expansion/ɪkˈspanʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or an instance of expanding.
■ the political strategy of extending a state's territory by encroaching on that of other nations.
- 2 the increase in the volume of fuel on combustion in the cylinder of an engine, or the piston stroke in which this occurs.
– derivatives
expansionary adjective.
expansionary adjective.
'expansion' also found in these Oxford entries:
big bang
- colon
- compensation pendulum
- containment
- diastole
- expansile
- expansion bolt
- expansion card
- expansionism
- expansion joint
- expansion slot
- expansive
- frost heave
- Hubble's law
- inflation
- internal-combustion engine
- Invar
- IPO
- manifest destiny
- mature
- montmorillonite
- mushroom growth
- phreatic
- power stroke
- psychedelic
- sprawl
- steam engine
- thunder
- Uncle Sam
- vermiculite
