Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   expansion

   /ɪkˈspanʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action of becoming larger or more extensive: "the rapid expansion of suburban London" Similar growthincrease in sizeenlargementextensionaugmentationdevelopmentevolutiondiversificationbuild-upbuildoutscaling upaggrandizementspreadproliferationmushroomingmultiplicationrare:evolvementOpposite reduction in size
   • ▪ the political strategy of extending a state's territory by encroaching on that of other nations: "German expansion in the 1930s"
   • ▪ a thing formed by the enlargement or broadening of something: "the book is an expansion of a lecture given last year" Similar elaborationenlargementamplificationdevelopmentembellishmentOpposite summaryabridgement
   • ▪ the increase in the volume of fuel on combustion in the cylinder of an engine, or the piston stroke in which this occurs.

   Word Origin early 17th century: from late Latin expansio(n-), from Latin expandere (see expand).

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • P

     3

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • S

     1

   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points