expansion
expansion
noun
noun
- [mass noun]the action of becoming larger or more extensive
扩大；扩充；扩展
the rapid expansion of suburban London.
伦敦郊区的迅速扩展。
[count noun]a small expansion of industry.
工业的小幅发展。
■extension of a state's territory by encroaching on that of other nations, pursued as a political strategy
（领土）扩张
German expansion in the 1930s.
20世纪30年代德国的扩张。
■[count noun]a thing formed by the enlargement, broadening, or development of something
扩展部分；扩大物；扩充物
the book is an expansion of a lecture given last year.
这本书是在去年的一个讲座基础上扩写而成的。
■the increase in the volume of fuel on combustion in the cylinder of an engine, or the piston stroke in which this occurs
（汽缸或活塞冲程内的）燃料增加
- early 17th cent.: from late Latin expansio(n-), from Latin expandere (see expand)
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