expansible

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Yet both English and American (governmental) experiments ignore the fact, that the expansible bullets increase friction enormously; and the Enfield bullet (fig. 3) is as badly contrived as possible, being round-pointed, expansible, and with very long bearings, without the bands which in the French and American bullets reduce the friction somewhat.

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  1. adjective That can expand or be expanded: an expansible antenna.

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  • That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. —  p2pnet news
  • Now, let's further say that any market where a business model that is prevented from using one invention and where the market is expansible to encompass an unlimited number of inventions will always lead to an unlimited number of inventions. —  Techdirt
  • Yet both English and American (governmental) experiments ignore the fact, that the expansible bullets increase friction enormously; and the Enfield bullet (fig. 3) is as badly contrived as possible, being round-pointed, expansible, and with very long bearings, without the bands which in the French and American bullets reduce the friction somewhat. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
  • The strain is not lightened as industrial efficiency increases and makes a lighter strain possible, but the increment of output is turned to use to meet this want, which is indefinitely expansible, after the manner commonly imputed in economic theory to higher or spiritual wants. —  Theory of the Leisure Class
  • It is a fixed quantity; the appetite is indefinitely expansible. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
 

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  1. = French expansible = Spanish expansible = Portuguese expansivel = Italian espansibile, from Latin as if *expansibilis, from expansus, past participle of expandere, expand: see expand, expanse.
 

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/ɛksˈpænsɪbl/
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