expansible
adjective
capable of being expanded.
expansibility
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a word derived from
expansible.
Example Sentences
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First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
But the different metals having different degrees of expansibility, there would be as many different standards as there are metals, were that generic term to be used.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
They pass into the form of vapour, occupy a thousand times larger area, and possess an elasticity of compressibility and expansibility they were destitute of before.
From Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
Well-formed chests offer no impediment to its inroads, if the volume of blood be out of proportion to the expansibility and capacity of the pulmonary organs.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
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
