expansible

Example Sentences

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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

First dealing with temperature as measured by the expansion of a liquid in a less expansible vessel, he showed how it is in reality numerically reckoned.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

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

This is why he insisted that we understand the policy implications of the differences between tangible property and ideas, which "like fire" are "expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point."

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James

And while human desires were expansible, he doubted whether the demand for goods could possibly increase with sufficient rapidity to absorb the new productive capacities of the nation.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.