Usually means: Increase in size, scope, capacity.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word expansion:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. expansion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expansion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expansion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expansion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expansion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expansion, expansion: Wordnik
  7. expansion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expansion: Wiktionary
  9. expansion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expansion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expansion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expansion: Dictionary.com
  13. expansion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Expansion (economics), Expansion (geometry), Expansion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Expansion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. expansion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. expansion: Rhymezone
  18. expansion, expansin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. expansion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. expansion: Free Dictionary
  21. expansion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. expansion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. expansion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Expansion: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Expansion: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. Expansion: Investopedia
  7. Expansion: Securities Terminology
  8. Expansion (computer science), expansion: Legal dictionary
  9. Expansion (computer science), Expansion (economics), Expansion: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. expansion: CCI Computer
  2. Expansion (computer science), Expansion (economics), expansion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Expansion (computer science), expansion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Expansion: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. expansion: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Expansion: Chess Dictionary
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See expansional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act, process, or instance of expanding.
noun:  The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
noun:  (building) A new addition.
noun:  A product to be used with a previous product.
noun:  That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
noun:  (steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
noun:  The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
noun:  The string of text thus substituted.
noun:  (economics) An increase in the market value of an economy over time.
noun:  (geometry) Stretching of geometric objects with flat sides.
noun:  (video games) Short for expansion pack. [(computing) A module that adds new content to an existing piece of software.]

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