Expansion, expansion, or expand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expansion may refer to: L'Expansion, a French monthly business magazine Expansion...
Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism. In the classical age of conquest moral justification...
Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change its shape, area, volume, and density in response to a change in temperature, usually not including...
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...
An expansion pack, expansion set, supplement, or simply expansion, is an addition to an existing role-playing game, tabletop game, video game, collectible...
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail...
The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic...
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 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...
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 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...
An extensor expansion (extensor hood, dorsal expansion, dorsal hood, dorsal aponeurosis[citation needed]) is the special connective attachments by which...
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...
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...
mechanics, the cluster expansion (also called the high temperature expansion or hopping expansion) is a power series expansion of the partition function...
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...
In mathematics and physics, the Magnus expansion, named after Wilhelm Magnus (1907–1990), provides an exponential representation of the solution of a...
expansion into yet more stages to increase efficiency. The result is the multiple-expansion engine. Such engines use either three or four expansion stages...
In mathematics, a series expansion is a technique that expresses a function as an infinite sum, or series, of simpler functions. It is a method for calculating...
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...
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...
Oromo expansions, also known as the Oromo migrations or the Oromo invasions (in older historiography, Galla invasions), were a series of expansions in the...
An expansion valve is a valve used for different purposes: A valve used to control the expansion of steam: Expansion valve (steam engine) The best-known...
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...
Tissue expansion is a technique used by plastic, maxillofacial and reconstructive surgeons to cause the body to grow additional skin, bone, or other tissues...
In linear algebra, the Laplace expansion, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, also called cofactor expansion, is an expression of the determinant of an...
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