expands
- 1Third-person singular simple present of expand.
Water expands as it freezes, which can crack pipes left outside.
The company expands into a new market almost every year.
Note
One spelling serves the verb with or without an object. Transitively, someone expands a business, an argument or a short summary; in algebra, a student expands an expression into a longer, equivalent sum of terms, or expands a fraction by multiplying numerator and denominator by the same number. Intransitively, the expression itself expands, much as water expands when it freezes.
She expands the brackets before collecting like terms.
Squared out, the expression expands into four separate terms.
expands is a form of expand
expand, verb: To make something larger or wider in scope, or to add to its number, extent, or volume. Full entry
- Spelling
- expand → expands: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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