expansible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- expansibility noun
- nonexpansibility noun
- nonexpansible adjective
- semiexpansible adjective
- unexpansible adjective
Etymology
Origin of expansible
Example Sentences
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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
Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
For this purpose an expansible, metallic core is employed, the arrangement of which is shown in Figs.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
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