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EXPANDABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expandable mean? 

EXPANDABLE (adjective)
  The adjective EXPANDABLE has 2 senses:

1. able to expand or be expandedplay

2. (of gases) capable of expansionplay

  Familiarity information: EXPANDABLE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXPANDABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Able to expand or be expanded

Synonyms:

expandable; expandible; expansible

Similar:

expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(of gases) capable of expansion

Synonyms:

expandable; expandible; expansible; expansile

Similar:

elastic (capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy)


 Context examples 


The technique, which the researchers call expansion microscopy, uses an expandable polymer and water to swell brain tissue to about four and a half times its usual size, so that nanoscale structures once blurry appear sharp with an ordinary confocal microscope.

(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)



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