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free expansion

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noun

Thermodynamics.
  1. the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.


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Mr Cote said the firm would refund fans who had pre-ordered the game, and promised a free expansion to anyone who placed a new pre-order for the revised launch.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2024

He enraged many; some staunch Army and Navy men deemed him a menace to their free expansion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vassalage of fashion, which is a part of rank, prevents continually the free expansion of men's powers.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

The water-jackets are of spun copper, brazed on to the cylinder, and corrugated so as to admit of free expansion; the water is circulated by means of a centrifugal pump.

From A History of Aeronautics by Vivian, Evelyn Charles

A point of importance in the manuring of potatoes is a good tilth in the soil, so as to enable a free expansion of the tubers to take place.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton

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