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Expansion vs Increasing - What's the difference?

expansion | increasing |

As nouns the difference between expansion and increasing

is that expansion is expansion while increasing is (knitting) an increase.

As a verb increasing is

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expansion

English

Noun

  • The act or process of expanding.
    • The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
  • The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
  • A new addition.
    • My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
  • A product to be used with a previous product.
    • This expansion requires the original game board.
  • That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
  • * Beattie
    • the starred expansion of the skies
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * (act of expanding) contraction

    Related terms

    * expand * expanse * expansive

    Derived terms

    * expansionism * expansion joint * expansion team * expansion cleat * expansion pack

    increasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (knitting) An increase.
  • * 1864 , The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)
    • Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.