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Definition of Expansivity

1. Noun. The fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure.

2. Noun. A quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand. "The expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed"

3. Noun. A friendly open trait of a talkative person.

Definition of Expansivity

1. Noun. expansiveness ¹

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Definition of Expansivity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expansivity

expansionary expansionism expansionisms expansionist expansionistic expansionists expansions expansive expansive bit expansive delusion

expansive soil expansively expansiveness expansivenesses expansivities expansivity (current term) expansure expat expatiate expatiated

expatiates expatiating expatiation expatiations expatiatory expatriate expatriated expatriates expatriating expatriation

Literary usage of Expansivity

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

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"Table 2 presents values found for the linear thermal expansivity of several amalgams near body temperature (37.5° C.). The letter following the specimen ..."

2. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1921)
"Table 2 presents values found for the linear thermal expansivity of several amalgams near body temperature (37.5° C.). The letter following the specimen ..."

3. The Elements of Molecular Mechanics by Joseph Bayma (1866)
"Both elasticity and expansivity, when they coexist, arise from molecular repulsion : and such is the case with regard to ponderable substances : but, ..."

4. Reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor 1904-1912: Report of the by Dept. of Commerce and Labor, United States (1912)
"During the latter part of the year the thermal expansivity of 25 ... Apparatus for determination of expansivity has also been developed and tested. ..."

5. Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards by United States Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Standards, United States (1919)
"if the expansivity, (NO), is known. This was obtained in two ways from ... 1 The expansivity was computed by means of the formula: /d»N rf» /d»\ J. td - d" ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
""Examples of the Precision Attainable in Determinations of Thermal expansivity," by Arthur W. Gray. "Dioptric Formula,' for Combined Cylindrical Lenses at ..."

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