Expansion, expansion, or expand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expansion may refer to: L'Expansion, a French monthly business magazine Expansion...

The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic...

Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to increase in length, area, or volume, changing its size and density, in response to an increase in temperature...

Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism. In the classical age of conquest moral justification...

Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail...

expansion into yet more stages to increase efficiency. The result is the multiple-expansion engine. Such engines use either three or four expansion stages...

The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central...

An expansion pack, expansion set, supplement, or simply expansion, is an addition to an existing role-playing game, tabletop game, video game, collectible...

An economic expansion is an increase in the level of economic activity, and of the goods and services available. It is a period of economic growth as...

An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of...

In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be...

A multipole expansion is a mathematical series representing a function that depends on angles—usually the two angles used in the spherical coordinate...

The Joule expansion (a subset of free expansion) is an irreversible process in thermodynamics in which a volume of gas is kept in one side of a thermally...

In mathematics, an asymptotic expansion, asymptotic series or Poincaré expansion (after Henri Poincaré) is a formal series of functions which has the property...

A expansion joint, or movement joint, is an assembly designed to hold parts together while safely absorbing temperature-induced expansion and contraction...

The Oromo expansions or the Oromo invasions (in older historiography, Galla invasions), were a series of expansions in the 16th and 17th centuries by...

The expansion ratio of a liquefied and cryogenic substance is the volume of a given amount of that substance in liquid form compared to the volume of...

An extensor expansion (extensor hood, dorsal expansion, dorsal hood, dorsal aponeurosis[citation needed]) is the special connective attachments by which...

Expansión is a Spanish-language news magazine targeted to business markets in Mexico and Latin America created in 1969 and redesigned in 1999. While most...

An expansion tank or expansion vessel is a small tank used to protect closed water heating systems and domestic hot water systems from excessive pressure...

The National Basketball Association has undergone several rounds of expansion in the league's history, since it began play in 1946, to reach 30 teams...

GO Expansion, previously known as GO Regional Express Rail (RER), is a project to improve GO Transit train service by adding all-day, two-way service...

An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly...

In linear algebra, the Laplace expansion, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, also called cofactor expansion, is an expression of the determinant of an...

Inline expansion is similar to macro expansion, but occurs during compilation, without changing the source code (the text), while macro expansion occurs...

In mathematics, a trinomial expansion is the expansion of a power of a sum of three terms into monomials. The expansion is given by ( a + b + c ) n =...

the upper jaw. Rapid palatal expansion (RPE) or Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME) is an expansion technique where expansion of 0.5 mm to 1 mm is achieved...

Query expansion (QE) is the process of reformulating a given query to improve retrieval performance in information retrieval operations, particularly...

mechanics, the cluster expansion (also called the high temperature expansion or hopping expansion) is a power series expansion of the partition function...

Tissue expansion is a technique used by plastic, maxillofacial and reconstructive surgeons to cause the body to grow additional skin, bone, or other tissues...