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Definition of Expander
1. n. Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
Definition of Expander
1. Noun. Agent noun of expand; someone or something that expands. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expander
1. one that expands [n -S] - See also: expands
Medical Definition of Expander
1.
Anything which causes expansion especially.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expander
Literary usage of Expander
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"Exhaust temperature of gas from low-pressure expander cylinder 60° to 70° F. ...
expander for natural gas with two-stage compressor for recom- pressing this ..."
2. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck, Raymond Johnson (1895)
"Thompson'» Stricture-expander. must follow as a matter of necessity. They cannot
possibly go wrong ; and. as no laceration of the stricture is effected by ..."
3. Handbook of Casinghead Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1922)
"The diameter of the exhaust pipe should be between one-third and one- quarter of
the cylinder diameter. expander-Compressor—A casinghead gas expander- ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"movement, as he himself seems to tell us, was that of expander, and not originator.
He spoke for it, said what it ought to say; he made himself its ..."
5. Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and by Emory Edwards (1883)
"It has been claimed that by simply rolling in the tube with a Dudgeon tube
expander, little holding power was secured. As this apparatus is so generally ..."
6. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Thomas Hill Green (1911)
"He is thus a great expander of sympathies; and if he cannot help us to make the
world our own by the power of ideas, he at least carries our thought into ..."
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