The meaning of EXPANSION is expanse. How to use expansion in a sentence.
EXPANSION definition: the act or process of expanding. See examples of expansion used in a sentence.
EXPANSION definition: 1. the increase of something in size, number, or importance: 2. the increase of something in size…. Learn more.
an act of increasing or making something increase in size, amount or importance. Despite the recession the company is confident of further expansion. The expansion of higher education will continue. The book is an expansion of a series of lectures given last year.
Expansion is the process of becoming greater in size, number, or amount. ...the rapid expansion of private health insurance.
expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions) The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood. Look up the expansion of 1018 steel at stick welding temps and figure out how far this thing's gonna bend once we weld it up. My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
The runway is undergoing expansion to allow bigger planes to land there. [countable] an expanded portion or form of a thing: The book is an expansion of a series of articles.
The act or process of expanding. The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
The league is undergoing expansion. This book is an expansion of a lecture series. Her remarks today were an expansion on her earlier comments regarding the budget.
According to Jeff Miller's Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics, the term kernel was first used in this meaning by Pontryagin (in translation by Lehmer) in the slightly broader context of group homomorphisms. It doesn't say why Pontryagin or Lehmer chose that particular word though.