Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective That can expand or be expanded.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being expanded or spread; admitting of being extended, dilated, or diffused.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
expandable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to expand or be expanded
- adjective (of gases) capable of expansion
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Examples
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Calhoun also tried to push through Congress the idea of an “expansible army,” essentially a skeleton regular force that could readily absorb a wartime influx of personnel.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Popular and institutional memories also ignored the real operational lessons of Plattsburgh: the strategic resilience of a professional army when supported by an expansible militia; the necessity of close interservice cooperation; and the necessity for expeditionary-capable logistical support when operating in lightly populated wilderness.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Popular and institutional memories also ignored the real operational lessons of Plattsburgh: the strategic resilience of a professional army when supported by an expansible militia; the necessity of close interservice cooperation; and the necessity for expeditionary-capable logistical support when operating in lightly populated wilderness.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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By Mesa de café expansible « MUNDO HOGAR on October 2, 2009 at 7: 22 am
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Washington had in mind an expansible army of 2,600 men to defend frontiers against Native peoples and neighboring European colonists, prepare for war, establish magazines and arsenals, and train state militias to a national standard.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Washington had in mind an expansible army of 2,600 men to defend frontiers against Native peoples and neighboring European colonists, prepare for war, establish magazines and arsenals, and train state militias to a national standard.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Calhoun also tried to push through Congress the idea of an “expansible army,” essentially a skeleton regular force that could readily absorb a wartime influx of personnel.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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There were no expansible or reproducible output of information from systematized studies of the working principles of nature from Negroes.
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Made of thick but very expansible and pliable opaque kelp-plastic, blossoms have a central tube about the diameter of a carrot with flaring fronds (or blossoms) on either end, spreading out at a tilt.
Archive 2004-08-08 Maggie Jochild 2004
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Made of thick but very expansible and pliable opaque kelp-plastic, blossoms have a central tube about the diameter of a carrot with flaring fronds (or blossoms) on either end, spreading out at a tilt.
PYA: GLOSSARY FROM SKENISH TO ENGLISH Maggie Jochild 2004
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