expansible

American  

[ik-span-suh-buhl] / ɪkˈspæn sə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being expanded: expand.

   Most metals are expansible.

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expansible British  

/ ɪkˈspænsəbəl /

adjective

1. able to expand or be expanded

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Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of expansible

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

Example Sentences

However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

I telephoned for a physician, and while awaiting his coming my patient placed in my keeping an expansible leather-covered book of a large pocket size.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

In some of the lesser pools birds larger than the stork, bearing under the throat an expansible bag like that of the pelican, were seeking for prey.

From Across the Zodiac by Greg, Percy

The faculty is inseparable from man's consciousness of immortality and of an indefinitely expansible nature which ever makes him discontented with the present.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

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.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.