expand

present (v1)

expand

past (v2)

expanded

past participle (v3)

expanded

present participle

expanding

3rd person singular

expands

1. 1.To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.

   • You can expand this compact umbrella to cover a large table.

2. 2.To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).

   • Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
   • A flower expands its leaves.
   • This has evidently been encouraging, for the current winter timetable - not even with the benefit of summer holiday traffic - shows that the two trains each way have been expanded to four.

3. 3.To express (something) at length and/or in detail.

4. 4.To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.

   • Use the binomial theorem to expand #123;(x#43;1)#125;⁴.

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