Expansion

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of expanding.
 * The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
 * 1) The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
 * 2) A new addition.
 * My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
 * 1) A product to be used with a previous product.
 * "This expansion requires the original game-board."

Antonyms

 * contraction

Related terms

 * expand
 * expanse


 * expansive

Derived terms

 * expansionism
 * expansion joint
 * expansion team


 * expansion cleat
 * expansion pack

Adjectives for Expansion
transcendent; fanlike; marvelous; tremendous; subsequent; intellectual; cruel; ephemeral; vital; free; explosive; economic; prodigious; temperamental; industrial;, reflex; muscular; important; noisy; amazing; ill-directed; inevitable; major; rapid; imperial; conceivable;  healthful;  chaotic; enormous.

Verbs for Expansion
advocate—; check—; confine—to; cover—; curtail—; demand—; evince—; force—; influence—; justify—; limit—; nip—; plan —; prevent—; regulate—; speed up—; strangle—; suppress—; terminate—; —continues ; —ends; —follows.

Thesaurus
access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acreage, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, area, ascent, attenuation, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, big talk, bigness, bloating, blossoming, blowing up, body, boom, boost, bottoming out, breadth, broadcast, broadcasting, broadening, buildup, bulk, burgeoning, burlesque, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, caliber, caricature, circumfusion, continuum, cooling off, coverage, crescendo, crisis, depression, depth, development, developmental change, diameter, diffraction, diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, dimensions, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distance, distension, distention, distribution, divergence, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, edema, elaboration, elevation, emptiness, empty space, enhancement, enlargement, evaporation, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expanding economy, expanse, expatiation, explication, extension, extent, extravagance, extreme, field, flood, flourishing, flowering, fragmentation, furtherance, gain, galactic space, gauge, girth, gradual change, grandiloquence, greatening, greatness, growth, gush, height, heightening, high growth rate, hike, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, infinite space, inflation, inordinacy, interstellar space, jump, largeness, leap, length, low, magnification, magnitude, market expansion, mass, maturation, measure, measurement, mounting, multiplication, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, nothingness, outer space, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, peak, peaking, peppering, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, progress, progression, proliferation, propagation, proportion, proportions, prosperity, publication, puffery, puffing up, radiation, radius, raise, range, reach, recession, recovery, ripening, rise, scale, scattering, scatterment, scope, sensationalism, shotgun pattern, size, slowdown, slump, snowballing, sowing, space, spatial extension, spattering, sphere, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, stretch, stretching, strewing, superficial extension, superlative, surface, surge, swelling, tall talk, touting, tract, travesty, tumescence, unfolding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, void, volatilization, volume, waxing, widening, width, working-out

Translations

 * Arabic: تمدد, توسع
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 擴張, 扩张, 擴大, 扩大, 展開, 展开
 * Esperanto: ekspansio
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: expansion
 * German: Expansion
 * Greek: (for metals),


 * Hungarian: terjeszkedés
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 拡大, 拡張, 展開
 * Korean: 확장 (擴張)
 * Russian: расширение, экспансия
 * Spanish: expansión
 * Swedish: utvidgning


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Russian: пристройка (pristrójka) of a building


 * Swedish: utbyggnad (about buildings), tillbyggnad (about buildings), (about businesses)


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: kiegészítő


 * Swedish: tillägg


 * : ekspansjon, utvidelse