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Look up: expansive

  1. expansive
    [adj] - impressive in scale 2. [adj] - able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion 3. [adj] - (psychiatry) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur 4. [adj] - friendly and open and willing to talk
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. expansive
    a classification having several complete classification schedules, each after the first being more minutely subdivided than the previous are Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a condition in which a country has a young population with a high potential for growth Category: Statistics
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Expansive
    Ex·pan'sive (ĕks*păn'sĭv) adjective [ Confer French expansif .] Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide- extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air. « A more expansive and generous compassion.» Eustace. « His forehead was broad and expansive .&#x ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/89

  4. expansive
    grand adjective of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; `an expansive lifestyle`; `in the grand manner`; `collecting on a grand scale`; `heroic undertakings`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. expansive
    talkative adjective friendly and open and willing to talk; `wine made the guest expansive`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. expansive
    adjective marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. expansive
    adjective able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; `Expansive materials`; `the expansive force of fire`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Expansive
    In mathematics, the notion of `expansivity` formalizes the notion of points moving away from one-another under the action of an iterated function. The idea of expansivity is fairly rigid, as the definition of positive expansivity, below, as well as the Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick theorem demonstrate.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansive

  9. Expansive
    • (a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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