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expansible

[ik-span-suh-buhl] / ɪkˈspæn sə bəl /


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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this purpose an expansible, metallic core is employed, the arrangement of which is shown in Figs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The world market is indefinitely expansible, and is always expanding; and commercial experience shows that the rapid expansion of the overseas trade of one country does not preclude the expansion of trade of other countries.

From Morals of Economic Internationalism by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)




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