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

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

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)

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

I telephoned for a physician, and while awaiting his coming my patient placed in my keeping an expansible leather-covered book of a large pocket size.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.