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Definition of Expands
1. expand [v] - See also: expand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expands
Literary usage of Expands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"of position results from the manner in which the womb, as he imagines, expands.
Thus, he says, that the Cumins together with the parts posterior to it, ..."
2. A Text-book of Physics: Heat by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"Heat taken in when a Body expands Isothermally—Heat to a neighbouring Adiabatic
the same by all paths—Change in Temperature when a Body undergoes a small ..."
3. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1899)
"It follows from what has been said in § 252 that when a body expands and does
external ... The gas inside the globe expands, and the expansion is so Fie. ..."
4. The New Chemistry by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1875)
"is it true that the bag expands as the pressure is relieved, but it is also true
that the gas in the bag expands in exactly the same proportion as the ..."
5. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1872)
"Beyond the Kins the valley expands. . The next village is Schnitten, with the
ruins of the castle of ..."
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