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Expansion

King James Dictionary

EXPAN'SION, n. L. expansio. The act of expanding or spreading out.

1. The state of being expanded the enlargement of surface or bulk dilatation. We apply expansion to surface, as the expansion of a sheet or of a lake, and to bulk, as the expansion of fluids or metals by heat but not to a line or length without breadth.
2. Extent space to which any thing is enlarged also, pure space or distance between remote bodies.
3. Enlargement as the expansion of the heart or affections.
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