expansible
adjective
capable of being expanded.
expansibility
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a word derived from
expansible.
Example Sentences
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The expansibility of air, which is vapour in a permanent form, can be shown by experiment.
From Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
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
I can't jine the reg'lars account of my physical expansibility and my aige, so I got to do my fightin' to home.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs
This great family of languages—if the Mpongwe dialect may be taken as a specimen—is remarkable for its beauty, elegance, and perfectly philosophical arrangements, as well as for its almost indefinite expansibility.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
