Expansion vs Extends - What's the difference?
expansion | extends |
The act or process of expanding.
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
A new addition.
A product to be used with a previous product.
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
* Beattie
(steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
(extend)
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
As a noun expansion
is the act or process of expanding.As a verb extends is
third-person singular of extend.expansion
English
Noun
- The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
- My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
- This expansion requires the original game board.
- the starred expansion of the skies
Antonyms
* (act of expanding) contractionDerived terms
* expansionism * expansion joint * expansion team * expansion cleat * expansion packextends
English
Verb
(head)extend
English
Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors