Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for free expansion. Search instead for shell expansion.

free expansion

American  

noun

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


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

This is true of the laboring women of the Emerald Isle, and other countries of Europe, and in the Indian female, whose blanket allows the free expansion of the chest.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

The activity, the free expansion of the ego, its desires to extend and aggrandise itself are checked and crushed by the weight of the world, which on every side is pressing in upon it.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

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

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training