expansible

[ik-span-suh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being expanded: expand.

   Most metals are expansible.

expansible

/ ɪkˈspænsəbəl /

adjective

1. able to expand or be expanded

Other Word Forms

• expansibility noun
• nonexpansibility noun
• nonexpansible adjective
• semiexpansible adjective
• unexpansible adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of expansible¹

1685–95; < Latin expāns ( us ) ( expanse ) + -ible

Example Sentences

First dealing with temperature as measured by the expansion of a liquid in a less expansible vessel, he showed how it is in reality numerically reckoned.

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One method is to form the tube of two layers of glass, one being considerably more expansible than the other.

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Dirichlet laid down certain definite sufficient conditions in regard to the nature of a function which is expansible, and found under these conditions the limiting value of the sum of n terms of the series.

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And while human desires were expansible, he doubted whether the demand for goods could possibly increase with sufficient rapidity to absorb the new productive capacities of the nation.

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The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.

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