Translate expansion | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of expansion
noun
the action of becoming larger or more extensive:the rapid expansion of suburban Washington a small expansion of industry extension of a state’s territory by encroaching on that of other nations, pursued as a political strategy:German expansion in the 1930s a thing formed by the enlargement, broadening, or development of something:the book is an expansion of a lecture given last year the increase in the volume of fuel on combustion in the cylinder of an engine, or the piston stroke in which this occurs.
