expansions
- 1Plural of expansion.
Rapid territorial expansions strained the empire's supply lines and finances.
Engineers accounted for thermal expansions when designing the bridge's joints.
Note
The plural takes the regular -s ending. It fits only where expansion names separate, countable things: individual acts of enlarging, new additions, or add-on products meant for use with an earlier one. Where expansion names the process itself, or the measured rate at which length changes with temperature, the word is uncountable. In those uses the singular is the natural choice.
expansions is a form of expansion
expansion, noun: The process of becoming larger or making something larger, or a single case of this. Full entry
- Forms
- expansionexpansions plural
- Spelling
- expansion → expansions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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