expansible

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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

Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

One method is to form the tube of two layers of glass, one being considerably more expansible than the other.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Dirichlet laid down certain definite sufficient conditions in regard to the nature of a function which is expansible, and found under these conditions the limiting value of the sum of n terms of the series.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various