expansion
expansion Lexical Profile
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• noun
The action of becoming larger or more extensive in size, volume, scope, or importance.
"The rapid expansion of the company into international markets created hundreds of new jobs."
A thing formed by the enlargement, broadening, or addition to an existing structure, system, or work.
"The museum opened a modern glass expansion to house its growing collection of contemporary sculpture."
In mathematics, the expression of a quantity or function as an extended sum or series of terms.
"Students used the binomial theorem to find the full algebraic expansion of the polynomial."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Late Latin expansio, a noun of action derived from the Latin verb expandere ('to spread out'), formed from ex- ('out') and pandere ('to spread' or 'to stretch').