expansion

Definition:
1. The act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope.
2. A discussion that provides additional information.
3. Adding information or detail.

Use 'expansion' in a sentence:

1. The development of banking and other financial services contributed to the expansion of trade.
2. The Boomerang Nebula's expansion creates a kind of cosmic refrigerator, allowing the gases to maintain their unusual cool.
3. In expansion games , Whirlwind is now properly modified by weapon speed.
4. Their desire for expansion has increased.
5. The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.
6. The plan will give an impulse to industrial expansion.
7. Expansion board , may provide the user with additional memory, graphics, colour, communications features, etc.
8. The company has not yet firmed up its plans for expansion.
9. Only teak matches oak's expansion coefficient and stays watertight.
10. Future expansion of the business calls for two new factories.
11. Increased agricultural production in turn facilitated rural industry, an intrinsic part of the expansion of industry.
12. Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains.
13. Clearly, much planning and central control were involved in the expansion and ordering of this great metropolis.
14. To prevent unlimited expansion of mental damage system, the certain restrictions of mental damage is inevitable.
15. There is an enormous supply and demand imbalance partly brought about by the expansion of high-tech manufacturing in Asia.
16. The rapid expansion of urban areas will have a huge impact on biodiversity hotspots and on carbon emissions in those urban areas.
17. His big book is an expansion of the little book he wrote before.
18. Shrub expansion has occurred in other environments, like semiarid grassland, and tall grass prairies.
19. All this has been done as excuses for their continued pursuance of a policy of aggression and expansion.
20. Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes.
21. If a metal bar is heated, the greater the heat applied, the larger the expansion.
22. We mustn't attempt unrestricted expansion regardless if it is within our capacity.
23. If there is nothing for Moscow to fear in NATO and EU expansion, its members should not act as if there is.
24. Such changes are also indicators of economic dynamism and demographic expansion.
25. With the expansion of cities, many people sell off their old houses in the countryside and move into new flats in cities.
26. Expansion is the process of becoming greater in size, number, or amount.
27. The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.
28. Adjusting technology and operating parameters were studied when rapeseed prepressing extraction was remaked expansion extraction.
29. The expansion of deserts must be stopped if we are to survive on this planet.
30. This revolutionary expansion required energetic nation-building policies.
31. The report also advocates greater study of foreign languages, international affairs and the expansion of study abroad programs.
32. A rise in the temperature of the gas results in its expansion.
33. Repeated ministerial advice is carrying little weight and the expansion programme is not working very well.
34. But the main expansion came from the 8th century.
35. Poor trading figures put back our plans for expansion.
36. Even more important was the remarkable expansion of public high schools from 1900 to 1920.
37. The expansion of desert-like conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.
38. GS: What environments are planned for the missions in the expansion?
39. Among the key factors behind this growth were increased agricultural productivity and an expansion of trade.
40. There are plans for the expansion of our school building.
41. It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.
42. Opponents worry that such expansion would be costly for taxpayers, but advocates say it would save money in the long run.
43. In fact, the revival of Byzantine learning may itself have influenced the subsequent economic and military expansion.
44. Increase in pastureland and subsequent overgrazing have resulted in an expansion of savanna.
45. Shrub expansion in these environments does seem to persist, almost to the point of causing a shift.
46. The company is forging ahead with its plans for expansion.
47. It would be a significant expansion of human intelligence.
48. The expansion of Western capitalism incorporated the Third World into an exploitative world system.
49. The company intends a slow-down in expansion.
50. Despite the recession the company is confident of further expansion.
51. The book is an expansion of a series of lectures given last year.
52. The runway of this airport is undergoing expansion to accommodate large planes.
53. Industrialization inevitably led to the expansion of the urban working class.
54. The memory expansion cards are useful adjuncts to the computer.