expansivity

ex·pan·sive

 (ĭk-spăn′sĭv)

adj.

1. Capable of expanding or tending to expand.

2. Broad in size or extent; comprehensive: expansive police powers.

3. Open and communicative; talkative or effusive: Wine made the guest expansive.

4. Grand in scale: an expansive lifestyle.

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ex·pan′sive·ly adv.

ex·pan′sive·ness, ex′pan·siv′i·ty (ĕk′spăn-sĭv′ĭ-tē) n.

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expansivity

(ˌɛkspænˈsɪvɪtɪ)

n

1. the quality of being expansive

2. (General Physics) another name for coefficient of expansion

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ex•pan•siv•i•ty

(ˌɛk spænˈsɪv ɪ ti)

n.

the quality or state of being expansive.

[1830–40]

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	expansivity - the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure coefficient of expansion coefficient - a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
	2.	expansivity - a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed" expansiveness impressiveness, magnificence, grandness, richness - splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora"
	3.	expansivity - a friendly open trait of a talkative person effusiveness, expansiveness communicativeness - the trait of being communicative

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Translations

expansivité