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Expandable vs Expanded - What's the difference?

expandable | expanded |

As an adjective expandable

is having the capacity to be expanded.

As a noun expandable

is anything that can be expanded.

As a verb expanded is

(expand).

expandable

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having the capacity to be expanded.
  • an expandable baton
    an expandable tree of data on a computer display

    See also

    * inflatable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that can be expanded.
  • Mobile homes include doublewides, expandables , and single units.

    expanded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (expand)

  • expand

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
  • (label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
  • (label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
  • To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
  • To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
  • (label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
  • (label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
  • (label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
  • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
  • (label) To feel generous or optimistic.
  • Synonyms

    * open out, spread, spread out, unfold * enlarge * (to express at length or in detail) elaborate (on), expand on

    Antonyms

    * contract * contract * factor

    Derived terms

    * expandable * expander