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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A Sommerfeld expansion is an approximation method developed by Arnold Sommerfeld for a certain class of integrals which are common in condensed matter...

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...

time, these grants were ceded to the federal government. The first great expansion of the country came with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, which doubled...

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

The virial expansion is a model of thermodynamic equations of state. It expresses the pressure P of a gas in local equilibrium as a power series of the...

In economics, an expansion path (also called a scale line) is a path connecting optimal input combinations as the scale of production expands. It is often...