Dictionary Definition
expand
Verb
1 extend in one or more directions; "The dough
expands" [syn: spread out]
[ant: shrink]
2 become larger in size or volume or quantity;
"his business expanded rapidly"
3 make bigger or wider in size, volume, or
quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"
6 add details, as to an account or idea; clarify
the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;
"She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn:
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out,
expound, dilate] [ant: abridge]
7 expand the influence of; "The King extended his
rule to the Eastern part of the continent" [syn: extend]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- to change (something) from a smaller form to a larger one
- You can expand this compact umbrella to cover a large table.
- to increase the extent, number, volume, or scope of (something)
- to express (something) at length or in detail
- to rewrite (an expression) as an equivalent sum of terms
- Use the binomial theorem to expand ^4 to x^4 + 4x^3 + 6x^2 + 4x + 1
- to change from a smaller form to a larger one
- Many materials expand when heated.
- This compact umbrella expands to cover a large table.
- Many materials expand when heated.
- to increase in extent, number, volume, or scope
- to speak or write at length or in detail
- to feel generous or optimistic
- to be rewritten as an equivalent sum of terms
- ''The expression ^4 expands to x^4 + 4x^3 + 6x^2 + 4x + 1.
Translations
Transitiveto change from a smaller form to a larger one
- Dutch: openzetten
- Finnish: laajentaa, levittää (to spread)
- French: agrandir (reg. 'ir')
- Korean: 펴다 (pyeoda), 피다 (pida)
- Norwegian: utvide, ekspandere
- Russian: растягивать, расширять
- Swedish: utbreda, utveckla, öppna
to increase the extent, number, volume, or scope
of'
to express at length or in detail
- Korean: 펴다 (pyeoda)
- Norwegian: utdype, greie ut (om)
- Russian: излагать дело в подробностях (izlagat' delo v podrobnostyah), раскрывать суть дела (raskryvat' sut' dela)
- Swedish: utveckla
algebra: to rewrite as an equivalent sum of
terms
- Dutch: ontbinden in factoren, factoriseren
- Finnish: sieventää
- Norwegian: faktorisere
- Russian: раскрывать скобки
- Swedish: faktorisera
Intransitive
to change from a smaller form to a larger one
to increase in extent, number, volume, or scope
- Dutch: zich uitbreiden, toenemen
- Finnish: laajentaa
- Korean: 펴이다 (pyeoida), 피다 (pida)
- Norwegian: vokse, ekspandere
- Russian: увеличиваться в объёме, в размерах (uvilichivatsa v obiome, v razmerh)
- Swedish: expanderas, vidgas, utvidgas
to speak or write at length or in detail
to feel generous or optimistic
- Russian: раскрываться, делаться откровеннее, становиться общительнее
algebra: to rewrite as an equivalent sum of
terms
- Finnish: laventaa
- Norwegian: faktorisere
- Swedish: faktoriseras
Synonyms
Related terms
Extensive Definition
. Expansion may refer to:
- In physics:
- In computer hardware: an expansion card
- In computer programming: in-line expansion
- In computer gaming:
-
-
- an expansion pack
- (in real time strategy games like Starcraft) building a secondary base to gather more resources.
-
- In mathematics:
- An expansion team in sports.
- In medicine, a trinucleotide repeat expansion disorder is the result of expansion during DNA translation.
- An album by Dave Burrell.
- In economics: economic expansion
expand in Danish: Ekspansion
expand in German: Expansion
expand in Esperanto: Ekspansio
expand in French: Expansion
expand in Dutch: Expansie
expand in Russian: Экспансия
expand in Slovak: Expanzia
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
add to, adulterate, aggrandize, amplify, attenuate, augment, balloon, beef up, bloat, blow up, bolster, boost, branch, branch out, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, complete, crescendo, cut, deal in generalities, deepen, deploy, descant, detail, develop, dilate, dilute, discourse, disperse, distend, ecumenicize, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter
into detail, etherealize, evolve, exalt, expatiate, explicate, extend, fan, fan out, fatten, fill out, flare, generalize, globalize, go into, greaten, grow, heighten, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up,
labor, lengthen, magnify, make a generalization,
maximize, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, parlay, particularize, prolong, protract, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, ramify, rarefy, rehearse in extenso,
relate at large, snowball, spell out, splay, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire,
spread out, stretch,
subtilize, sufflate, swell, thicken, thin, thin out, tumefy, unfold, universalize, up, upsurge, vise, water, water down, wax, widen, work
out