expansible
adjective
capable of being expanded.
expansibility
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a word derived from
expansible.
Example Sentences
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In order to account for this great expansibility, Boyle pictured the constitution of the air in the following way.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
And this undetermined passion is beautiful because of extreme freshness; of infinite, immeasurable expansibility.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Given the requisite expansibility to the present senses and intelligence of man — given also the time necessary for their expansion — and this high goal may be attained.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
It is based on certain principles, the foundation one of which is the expansibility of steam, and its ability, when confined in a cylinder, to give motion to a piston.
From Evolution An Investigation and a Critique by Theodore Graebner
When Picard had corrected the variation caused by heat and cold acting upon the pendulum rod by combining metals of different degrees of expansibility, a high degree of accuracy was possible.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Henry Smith Williams
