Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being expansive; expansiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure.
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- noun
expansiveness - noun mathematics The
formal notion ofpoints moving away from one another under the action of aniterated function .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
- noun the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure
- noun a friendly open trait of a talkative person
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Examples
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The transition can be detected as a marked change in the thermal expansivity and heat capacity of the material.
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I work on materials with negative Poisson's ratios (NPR) and negative thermal expansivity
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I work on materials with negative Poisson's ratios (NPR) and negative thermal expansivity
iMechanica - Comments Ajay B Harish 2010
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Water's thermal expansivity reduces increasingly (becoming negative) at low temperatures.
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Water's thermal expansivity increases with increased pressure.
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Water has a low coefficient of expansion (thermal expansivity).
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Such fibres may acts as balancing plies during manufacture because they may effectively reduce thermal expansivity (see recent papers and patents by
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Such fibres may acts as balancing plies during manufacture because they may effectively reduce thermal expansivity (see recent papers and patents by
iMechanica - Comments Ajay B Harish 2010
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