Expansion
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.
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Expansion Quotations
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Susan Sontag
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles M. Schwab
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
Arthur Erickson
Expansion Translations
expansion in Danish is udvidelse
expansion in Dutch is uitzetting, expansie
expansion in French is expansion, extension
expansion in German is Erweiterung {f}, Erweiterung, Ausdehnung {f}
expansion in Italian is estensione
expansion in Norwegian is utbredelse, utvidelse
expansion in Swedish is utbredning
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