Definition of Expansibility

1. n. The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.

Definition of Expansibility

1. Noun. The condition of being expansible ¹

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Definition of Expansibility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expansibility

expander
expanders
expandible
expanding
expanding upon
expandingly
expandingness
expando
expandor
expandors
expandos
expands
expanse
expanses
expansibilities
expansibility (current term)
expansible
expansile
expansin
expansine
expansins
expansion
expansion adapter
expansion bit
expansion bolt
expansion cleat
expansion joint
expansion pack
expansion packs

Literary usage of Expansibility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel, Joseph David Everett (1885)
"expansibility of Gases. — Gaseous bodies possess a number of properties in common with liquids; ... This property, called the expansibility of gases, ..."

2. The Theory of Strains in Girders and Similar Structures: With Observations by Bindon Blood Stoney (1873)
"expansibility of timber diminished, or even reversed, by moisture.—Mr. Joule found that moisture occasioned a marked diminution in the expansibility of ..."

3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1835)
"Experiments oit the expansibility of Stane. 5. On the expansibility of different kinds of Stone. By Mr Alex. ..."

4. The fuel of the sun by William Mattieu Williams (1870)
"quences of that assumption of unlimited atmospheric expansibility which I maintain to be no longer a matter of mere hypothesis, but to have been ..."

5. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"expansibility. Although coefficients of expansion do ... The expansibility is determined either by taking the specific gravity at successive temperatures ..."

6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1835)
"On the expansibility of different kinds of Stone. By Mr Alex. ... The experiments from which the expansibility of the substances was numerically determined, ..."

7. Scientific Papers by Peter Guthrie Tait (1900)
"COMPRESSIBILITY, expansibility, ETC., OF SOLUTIONS OF COMMON SALT. This part of the inquiry was a natural extension of the observations on sea-water, ..."

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