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

Derived Forms

• exˌpansiˈbility, noun

Other Words From

• ex·pansi·bili·ty noun
• nonex·pansi·bili·ty noun
• nonex·pansi·ble adjective
• semi·ex·pansi·ble adjective
• unex·pansi·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of expansible¹

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

Example Sentences

The oxygen gas consumed is replaced by a like volume of carbonic acid gas, equally expansible by heat.

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The more expansible metal is in the present example supposed to be on the outside.

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God himself has decreed it, in giving us expansible desires and improvable faculties.

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Invar is practically non-expansible when the nickel in it is about 37%.

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Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing.

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