expander
Americannoun
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expanders
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a person or thing that expands.
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Electronics. Also expandor. a transducer that produces an output with a range of voltages greater than that of the input signal.
noun
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a device for exercising and developing the muscles of the body
a chest expander
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an electronic device for increasing the variations in signal amplitude in a transmission system according to a specified law Compare compressor compander
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When corsetry was in, expander panels conceded space, but often pregnancy was too rude and ugly to be revealed with a defining belt or sash.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
Now it is five days post-mastectomy and insertion of the tissue expander that presses hard against my chest wall.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2022
She had life-saving surgery to remove a tumour from her breast last summer and has since lived with a tissue expander, a temporary fix until an operation to change it to a permanent implant.
From Reuters ● Apr. 1, 2021
I hereby nominate, for a retrospective Pulitzer, Public Enemy’s 1988 album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”: an experimental sonic bombshell, a verbal torrent, a mind expander.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018
Some such violation of a sacred rule is the origin that naturally occurs to an adapter or expander of primitive myths.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
At the time of the interview, Timpf had recently undergone reconstructive surgery, replacing tissue expanders placed during the masectomy with breast implants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Back then, he used homemade cans of sand and cement and cable-chest expanders.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
In the months following the surgery, she had tissue expanders in her chest that were rock hard – they felt like coke cans.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2020
It has issued a voluntary worldwide recall of Biocell saline-filled and silicone-filled textured breast implants and tissue expanders.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2019
They had to use backboards every day, and chest expanders.
From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Angela Brazil
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