Expansion vs Integration - What's the difference?
expansion | integration |
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.
The act or process of making whole or entire.
(society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
(calculus) The operation of finding the of a function.
(biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
As nouns the difference between expansion and integration
is that expansion is expansion while integration is integration.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