vertical expansion

Examples of expansion

expansion
From the qualitative interviews, however, some interesting expansions of the definitions of ' relative ' have emerged.
This represents the expansion phase of the infection.
Among the reply-types considered are expansions, repeats, recasts, and requests for clarification.
The mechanical stresses occur as a result of thermal expansion of the metal at the metal-glass boundary.
Rather, a labour shortage was holding back further expansion of the rubber, palm oil and timber export industries.
As such it is, among other things, an expression of the kingdom's expansion and of genealogical distance or proximity to the current ruler.
It is most unlikely that there will be any future major expansion in grass drying.
Intelligent life in cosmology expansion of the universe itself to slow down the rocket.
Running vertically down the centre of each door is an expansion slot between the two sides of the panel, producing a clear vertical stripe.
The decline of fertility during the war contributed to the further expansion of the percentage of employed persons.
In what follows we seek more precise information on the edge expansion of random lifts.
The homoclinic points, foliations, and so on, all have a precise meaning in this expansion.
To quantify the expansion property of this graph precisely, we need the following concept.
We have described difficulties associated with semantic query expansion.
The expansion of volume in the center and stable directions is bounded by the maximal derivative of the map.
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Collocations withexpansion

expansion

These are words often used in combination with expansion.

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aggressive expansion
Its aggressiveexpansion in neighbouring countries is doing nothing to further this aim.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
ambitious expansion
I should also like to mention the museum's ambitiousexpansion plans.
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