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EXPANDABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does expandable mean?
• EXPANDABLE (adjective)
The adjective EXPANDABLE has 2 senses:
1. able to expand or be expanded
2. (of gases) capable of expansion
Familiarity information: EXPANDABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to expand or be expanded
Synonyms:
expandable; expandible; expansible
Similar:
expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of gases) capable of expansion
Synonyms:
expandable; expandible; expansible; expansile
Similar:
elastic (capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy)
Context examples
The technique, which the researchers call expansion microscopy, uses an expandable polymer and water to swell brain tissue to about four and a half times its usual size, so that nanoscale structures once blurry appear sharp with an ordinary confocal microscope.
(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)
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