Adjective : Most metals are expansible. From Dictionary.com.
As aboard ship, beds in the cottages were expansible to double width. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
By Mesa de café expansible « MUNDO HOGAR on October 2, 2009 at 7: 22 am. From Wordnik.com. [Stalactites as Table Legs : Stalac Coffee Table] Reference
Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
There were no expansible or reproducible output of information from systematized studies of the working principles of nature from Negroes. From Wordnik.com. [New Profile Of The Black Man] Reference
Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Made of thick but very expansible and pliable opaque kelp-plastic, blossoms have a central tube about the diameter of a carrot with flaring fronds (or blossoms) on either end, spreading out at a tilt. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-08] Reference
For this purpose an expansible, metallic core is employed, the arrangement of which is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and which is so fashioned that the inner circumference of the ring to be cast may receive the desired form. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
It is a fixed quantity; the appetite is indefinitely expansible. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
Iron is named for this purpose, because the least expansible of the metals. From Wordnik.com. [Public Papers] Reference
Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
The Right sees it from a perspective that the pie is expansible, and that a lot of little decisions generally sum up better than a few big ones. From Wordnik.com. [Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..] Reference
This application is based on highly used design patterns and it utilizes Object Oriented paradigm to make it simple and expansible to new processors. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Numerous current American monstrosities could be cited as interesting hybrids of the two types of interjection, generally expansible: e.g., ` like wow! '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
The faculty is inseparable from man's consciousness of immortality and of an indefinitely expansible nature which ever makes him discontented with the present. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
There was a delicious sense of venture to the whole thing: it offered that expansible horizon so necessary to the happiness of youth, though it might be hard to see just why Horatio. From Wordnik.com. [One Woman's Life] Reference
Before we quit the subject of expansion, I must observe to you that, as liquids expand more readily than solids, so elastic fluids, whether air or vapour, are the most expansible of all bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
Now, let's further say that any market where a business model that is prevented from using one invention and where the market is expansible to encompass an unlimited number of inventions will always lead to an unlimited number of inventions. From Wordnik.com. [Techdirt] Reference
Again, the Post-office arrangement is independent of all the others; for it is based upon taking St Paul's as a centre, and drawing circles around this at a definite number of miles 'radius; and the metropolis is thus made expansible on geometrical principles. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852] Reference
It would only be valid on the supposition that capital were absolutely fluid, that the quantity of soundly-placed investments were indefinitely expansible, and that new forms of capital had in no case the power to oust or negative the use of old forms of capital. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference
The strain is not lightened as industrial efficiency increases and makes a lighter strain possible, but the increment of output is turned to use to meet this want, which is indefinitely expansible, after the manner commonly imputed in economic theory to higher or spiritual wants. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
A good OS (multi task by any means necessary, simple yet expansible interface and great SDK's, ohhh yes, copy paste), the ability to install app's in the phone and on the card without having to pass by a central store, a central store with certified app's and uncertified (non-paying developers ones). From Wordnik.com. [Daring Fireball] Reference
I know something about it, and these children are more expansible even than school-girls. ". From Wordnik.com. [Pearl of Pearl Island] Reference
In the case of our atmosphere under the law of gravitation, the density of air, (supposing it to be infinitely expansible,) at a height only of ten semidiameters of the earth above its surface, would have only a density equal to the density of one cubic inch of such air we breathe, if that cubic inch was to be expanded so as to fill a globular space whose centre should be the earth, and whose surface should take inside the whole visible creation. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
It was to be indefinitely expansible. From Wordnik.com. [The Iroquois Book of Rites] Reference
"fire ... expansible over all space.". From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Agricultural economics expansible economy. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
20. expansible. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
They might be resembled to the springs of watches, coiled up and endeavoring to restore themselves; to wool, which, being compressed, has an elastic force; to slender wires of different substances, consistencies, lengths, and thickness; in greater curls or less, near to, or remote from each other, etc., yet all continuing springy, expansible, and compressible. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. From Wordnik.com. [senorcoconut Diary Entry] Reference
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. From Wordnik.com. [p2pnet news] Reference
That intellectual "property" should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. From Wordnik.com. [B2fxxx] Reference
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